White River Group

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White River Group is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor whose primary goal is to generate the highest quality of risk adjusted returns for clients. White River Group's trading strategy is discretionary, although technical analysis goes into defining trading strategy. Fundamental factors, including inflation view and economic indicators, are also taken into account. White River Group's programs trade futures and options in a broad array of markets, including, but not limited to, currencies, energies, equities, grains, interest rates, meats, metals and softs (e.g., sugar, cocoa and coffee), traded on U.S. and non-U.S. exchanges.

White River Group engages primarily in "selling" or "writing" of options on futures contracts. The core premise based on the statistic that, historically, approximately 90% of option buyers incur losses on their purchased options, because most "purchasers" of options are seeking an insurance policy for their underlying investment. White River Group, acting as the seller of options to these buyers, is essentially acting as an insurer by selling options in return for a premium. Once the options expire worthless, White River Group retains the premium as a profit.

The firm's Stock Index Option Writing strategy writes call and put options on index futures (primarily on the S&P index, but occasionally also on other indices). The strategy is designed to capture the decay of option premiums. The program sells deep out of the money options after unusual stock market movements. Option contracts are written at a sufficient distance to allow for the options to expire worthless. Primarily uncovered or naked options are sold (although spreads are utilized at times). White River Group may also take outright positions in the underlying future contract.

The firm's Dynamic S&P Options strategy primarily trades US equity index futures and options on their futures contracts. The strategy is designed to capture the decay of option premiums. The program sells deep out of the money options. Option contracts are written at a sufficient distance, to allow in most cases, for the options to expire worthless. Primarily uncovered or naked options are sold (although spreads are utilized at times). The program may trade index futures for hedging or speculative purposes. The program may also trade index futures directly. The trading strategy is mostly discretionary. Both fundamental and technical analysis is incorporated into the trading decision. One of the main differences to the Stock Index Writing Strategy is the shorter time period of the options till expiration.

Arctic Asset Management, LLC, doing business as White River Group, was formed as an Illinois Limited Liability Company in November 2006. White River Group became registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor ("CTA") with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") and became a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA") in January 2007.

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Park Avenue Asset Management
Manhattan ~ New York City
Toll Free: (877) 611-PAAM
Local: (212) 600-2883
ManagedFutures@ParkAvenueAssetMgt.com

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