Institutional-grade research and qualitative analysis across the managed futures universe.
The Hydra research team conducts deep, independent due diligence on every manager on the platform — and offers a bespoke manager search service for allocators with specific mandate requirements. Our process covers operational infrastructure, legal and regulatory standing, investment process, and ongoing performance attribution.
Unlike broker-distributed research, Hydra's due diligence is independent and objective. We are not paid by managers to appear on the platform. Every CTA is assessed against a consistent framework, and our ongoing monitoring means allocator-facing research is current — not a snapshot from two years ago.
Searchable database of 200+ CTAs with standardized performance, risk, and operational data maintained by the Hydra research team.
Rolling return attribution, drawdown analysis, correlation profiling, and regime-conditional performance across manager histories.
Assessment of trading infrastructure, service providers, counterparty relationships, key-person risk, and business continuity planning.
In-depth review of strategy design, signal construction, risk management framework, and alignment between stated process and actual returns.
Continuous performance monitoring across all platform managers, with alerts on material changes to strategy, personnel, or risk profile.
Bespoke mandate-driven search across the Hydra universe — including off-platform CTAs — with comparative scoring and detailed shortlist reports.
Kettera Strategies offers institutional-grade CTA research and due diligence services for institutions, fund of funds, RIAs, family offices, foundations, and endowments. Our qualitative and quantitative manager research reports are built to help investors understand, evaluate, and assess whether a specific CTA or managed futures manager meets their particular investment mandate and risk criteria.
Utilizing our team's background in conducting manager due diligence and third-party checks, our analysts generate in-depth reports that adhere to a strict and consistent reporting methodology. This allows straightforward qualitative and quantitative comparisons of multiple managers and ensures coherence within the reports, regardless of location of the program, type of strategy or the analyst writing the report.
An independent second opinion on every CTA and managed futures manager — quantitative return attribution, drawdown analysis, regime performance, operational review, and structural assessment. The standard investment committees require.
Institutional-grade operational due diligence and manager research reports delivered at a fraction of the cost of building the capability in-house. Our reports are typically generated within 4 to 6 weeks of engagement.
Every Kettera report adheres to a strict and consistent methodology — enabling straightforward qualitative and quantitative comparisons across multiple managers, regardless of strategy type, location, or program structure.
View a sample Kettera manager Report: here
Tell us your mandate. Our research team will run a systematic search across the full managed futures universe and deliver a qualified shortlist.