AI Hedge Awards 2017

26 Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2017 CoreCommodity Management Best for Pension Investment Management Services 2017 - Connecticut CoreCommodity Management CoreCommodity Management, LLC is an independent asset management firm, whose singular focus is to provide commodity exposure to investors globally via commodity futures and natural resource equity strategies. We caught up with Managing Director and Commodity Product Manager Eliot Geller to learn more. Company: CoreCommodity Management, LLC Name: Eliot H. Geller, CAIA Email: egeller@ corecommodityllc.com Web: www.corecommodityllc.com Address: 680 Washington Boulevard, 11th Floor Stamford, CT 06901 Phone: 203.708.6513 HF170055 Established in 2003 by an experienced team of professionals who helped pioneer commodities as an institutional asset class, CoreCommodity Management has since provided commodity exposure to a wide range of clients. These include sovereign wealth funds, public and corporate pension plans, endowments and foundations, not-for-profit organizations, religious institutions, insurance companies, asset managers and other prominent institutional clients. Eliot outlines the strategies these clients are provided with in order to ensure strong return on their investment. “CoreCommodity specializes in long-only commodity asset management. Our strategies are available across multiple jurisdictions via private commingled funds, collective investment trusts, SICAV II, separately managed accounts and funds for which the firm acts as a sub-advisor, including a U.S. mutual fund. The firm is experienced and able to tailoring products and strategies through both funds and separately managed accounts for specific investor requirements including Socially Responsible Investing Environmental, Social and Governance, as well as moral and religious principal considerations. “Our personnel have led the design, trading and management of leading commodity products since the inception of the modern era of commodity indexes, contributing meaningfully to their adoption by institutional investors globally. These professionals designed and launched the AIG Commodity Index in 1997 (now known as the Bloomberg Commodity Index) and orchestrated the latest revision to the Thomson Reuters/ CoreCommodity CRB Index in 2005.” Fundamentally, it is the extensive experience and commodity knowledge of the team, especially its principals, which provides a unique set of insights for the design and implementation of the firm’s actively managed commodity strategies. Eliot concludes by emphasising the continued need for this dynamic approach as the continued broad price declines in commodities have brought several markets to key levels of resistance recently, priming the asset class to continue the commodity market rally witnessed thus far in 2016. “As a firm, CoreCommodity Management remains dedicated to providing investors with access to the commodities market, and this will remain our ongoing focus moving forward. Additionally, the firm continues to see interest in its broadening capabilities managing natural resource equity strategies.” “As a firm, CoreCommodity Management remains dedicated to providing investors with access to the commodities market, and this will remain our ongoing focus moving forward .”