Efficient Capital Management Announces Strategic Relationship with Maren, LLC

WARRENVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Efficient Capital Management, LLC, a leading provider of managed futures strategies to institutional investors, announced today that it has launched an initiative to make its sophisticated managed futures strategies and services available to a wider group of investors through its proprietary trading platform. To assist it in implementing this, Efficient has entered into a strategic relationship with Maren, LLC—the principals of which are associated persons of D. H. Hill, a Texas-based financial services group that includes D. H. Hill Securities, LLP, a FINRA member broker dealer—to act as a placement agent for these services.

“There’s long been a significant gap in the marketplace between the managed futures products available to institutional investors versus those available to qualified individuals,” said Ernest Jaffarian, Efficient’s CEO/CIO. “Our goal is to bridge that gap by giving qualified investors the same broadly diversified, high-quality global managed futures access that the larger institutions enjoy.”

Efficient’s proprietary platform is intended to provide a convenient, cost-efficient way for qualified investors to invest in private single and multi-trader managed portfolios with institutional-grade infrastructure and risk management. It utilizes the services of independent, third-party clearing, cash management, administration, and auditing firms.

“The independence factor is something that we believe should be a part of all platforms,” said Lorent Meksi, Efficient’s Managing Director. “It allows us to pursue the highest level of service and cost efficiencies with every counterparty relationship. Serving the specific needs of all our investors is a high priority and important goal for us. We’re excited to enter into this new strategic relationship with Maren to introduce our products to a wider group of potential investors.”

The Maren team will assist qualified individuals, RIAs, and family offices in building and managing portfolios through the Efficient proprietary platform that are liquid, transparent, and customized. For more information, visit http://marenfinancial.com/managed-futures-platform.

About Efficient Capital Management

Efficient Capital Management, LLC, was founded in 1999 by leading managed futures industry professionals from some of the world's most successful trading firms. Focused solely on managed futures, Efficient specializes in designing and managing diversified CTA portfolios that are liquid, transparent, and cash-efficient. One of Efficient’s goals is to provide the best possible risk-adjusted return to investors. Trusted by institutional investors, Efficient currently has over $2 billion in nominal firm wide assets under management and advisement, and offers both managed fund and managed account solutions for qualified investors and clients.

About Maren, LLC

Maren, LLC, offers institutional-caliber alternative investment services to qualified individual investors, RIAs, and family offices. The team seeks to connect qualified investors to top managers and sophisticated multi-trader strategies previously available only to large institutions. As an independent boutique firm, Maren aims to offer a higher level of personalization and support, with ongoing portfolio monitoring and risk management. Its professionals work closely with clients to create and manage broadly-diversified alternative portfolios that are flexible, cost-efficient, and completely customized.

This is not an offer to buy or sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, any security or other financial instrument offered or advised by Efficient or any of its affiliates. Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by delivery of formal offering documentation to qualified investors or clients and only in those jurisdictions where permitted by law. Participation in Efficient Capital’s investment funds and programs is limited to clients and investors who are “qualified eligible persons,” as defined in Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Rule 4.7 and “accredited investors” as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Neither Efficient nor D. H. Hill is or purports to be an advisor as to legal, taxation, accounting, financial, or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction, and you should independently evaluate and judge the matters referred to herein with the assistance of your own independent professional advisors to determine whether an investment is suitable for you. The information contained herein does not include certain material information about Efficient Capital’s products, including important risk disclosure, which must be reviewed by a potential client or investor before deciding whether to invest. Any such investment is speculative and involves a high degree of risk, and is not appropriate for all investors. Investors could lose their entire investment, and any investor must be able to bear the risks involved and must meet the suitability requirements relating to such investment. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

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Efficient Capital Management, LLC

Mike Marcey, 630-657-6868

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Maren, LLC

Jay Ramey, 858-875-6290

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