{"id":6639,"date":"2007-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-tiberius-looks-beyond-futures-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/hedge-fund-tiberius-looks-beyond-futures-trading.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Tiberius looks beyond futures trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Commodities fund manager Tiberius is considering diversifying beyond trading futures contracts, and joining a small but expanding group of hedge funds spreading their wings into physicalmarkets.<\/p>\n<p>  The Geneva-based energy and commodities hedge fund manager said it was looking at physical commodities and would &#8220;probably do something in the near future in that space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;(We are) looking at trading in physical crude or base metals or whatever, and also investing in production capacities. That&#8217;s the next step,&#8221; Tiberius&#8217; Managing Partner Nicolas Maduz told Reuters  in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>  Founded in July 2005, Tiberius mainly trades futures contracts in over 30 commodities, spanning grains to metals to energy. Its funds have a corpus of $1.3 billion mainly invested by pension funds,  insurance companies and family offices.<\/p>\n<p>  Maduz said moving into the &#8220;physical&#8221; world was a &#8220;logical step,&#8221; adding &#8220;There is an attraction in going into physical and trying to generate alpha from all the derivatives around commodity  products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/165574873\"><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/165574873\/idUKNOA52478920071005\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Commodities fund manager Tiberius is considering diversifying beyond trading futures contracts, and joining a small but expanding group of hedge funds spreading their wings into physicalmarkets. The Geneva-based energy and commodities hedge fund manager said it was looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}