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Dynamic commodity trading

Dynamic commodity trading

The challenges, requirements, and joys of the sector keep Calculo Capital’s CEO focused… In the rapidly evolving landscape of commodity trading, Danish firm Calculo Capital, under the leadership of chief executive Philip Engel Carlsson, has charted its own course.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Commodity-focused trend-follower Calculo Capital has received recognition as the “Best AI Commodity Trading Strategy” in Europe, awarded by cfi.co. Headquartered at the Charlottenlund Palace just outside Copenhagen and led by founder Philip Engel Carlsson, Calculo Capital employs a systematic strategy designed to capture smaller, short-term trends within larger trends across commodity markets.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Over the past five years, financial markets have experienced significant ups and downs, influenced by a mix of economic trends, geopolitical events, a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, and central bank policies. Specifically, the final quarter of 2018, the first quarter of 2020, and the entirety of 2022 posed significant challenges for many investors. However, Calculo Evolution Fund, a commodity-focused trend-following fund, has demonstrated resilience throughout all these episodes to reach its five-year anniversary on August 1 this year.

After enjoying its best year in 2022 since launching in the summer of 2018 with a return of 15.1 percent, the trend-following commodity-focused Calculo Evolution Fund gained 0.6 percent in June to end the first half of 2023 down 1.9 percent. Philip Engel Carlsson’s Calculo Capital has launched a higher risk, higher return version of Calculo Evolution Fund, which opened for external investors this January and gained 1.2 percent in June.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After starting as a one-person fund boutique in 2018 and becoming a two-person shop in May 2022, Calculo Capital has now announced the appointment of Mark Steeltoft as a Client Specialist.

Trend-following commodity vehicle Calculo Evolution Fund edged down 1.0 percent in January after enjoyingits best year since launching in the summer of 2018 with a return of 15.1 percent for 2022. The recently-launched 2x version of Calculo Evolution Fund ended the month of January down 1.8 percent.

Calculo Evolution Fund enjoyed its best year in 2022 since launching in the summer of 2018 with a return of 15.1 percent. The trend-following commodity fund profited from last year’s volatile commodity markets amid a slew of factors such as rising inflation, recession concerns, and war-related disruptions. Philip Engel Carlsson’s Calculo Capital has launched a higher risk, higher return version of Calculo Evolution Fund, which opened for external investors this January.

Pure-commodity trend-following Calculo Evolution Fund edged down 1.9 percent in September to trim its 2022 advance to 9.8 percent.

Pure-commodity trend-following Calculo Evolution Fund booked a monthly gain of 2.2 percent in August to extend its 2022 advance to 11.9 percent. Philip Carlsson’s fund is on track to reach its best annual performance since launching about four years ago.

Zooming in on the group’s performance in May, pure-commodity trend-following Calculo Evolution Fund booked a monthly gain of 1.2 percent last month to extend its year-to-date advance to 13.1 percent. Calculo Evolution Fund has enjoyed its fifth consecutive month of positive performance, as wheat contributed the most to the fund’s May return due to rising fears of a global shortage due to the war in Ukraine – the world’s sixth-largest wheat exporter. Calculo Evolution Fund currently ranks among the top ten best-performing hedge funds within the Nordic Hedge Index.

Trend-following commodity fund Calculo Evolution Fund, meanwhile, is up 11.8 percent in 2022 after advancing 1.9 percent in April.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Institutional investors allocating capital to external managers focus on track records, with most asset management decisions centering on the three-year track record. Soon after his commodity-focused trend-following fund surpassed the three-year milestone, Philip Engel Carlsson has onboarded a new group of shareholders in Calculo Capital and new investors into his fund, Calculo Evolution Fund.

Trend-following commodity fund Calculo Evolution Fund, meanwhile, gained 5.3 percent in March to reach its best month since launching in August 2018. The fund steered by Philip Engel Carlsson advanced 9.7 percent in the first three months of this year.

Trend-following commodity fund Calculo Evolution Fund gained 1.84 percent in May

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Wild swings across markets were the rule in the first quarter of the year. Most trend-followers got whipsawed in that environment, as they flipped from long to short or from short to long right before sudden reversals. Calculo Evolution Fund, an artificial intelligence-assisted trend-following commodity fund, sailed successfully in turbulent waters, gaining 2.7 percent in the first quarter and 2.2 percent in March alone.