Jon Sundt
Jon has been in the alternative investments industry for over 18 years. Jon served for six years as Director of Managed Accounts and Senior Vice President of the Managed Investments Division of Man Financial, a subsidiary of the Man Group, prior to founding Altegris Investments, Inc. Jon is also the founder and President of International Traders Research Inc. (ITR), a highly acclaimed Altegris affiliate that provides performance information on alternative investment programs worldwide. ITR's research has been used and quoted by a variety of financial publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Alternative Investment Management Association, and Financial Times, among others.
Jon is a Director and President of Altegris Investments and a managing member of Altegris Capital. He currently serves as President and Director of APM Funds, an Altegris company that acts as a General Partner to several hedge funds and commodity pools. Jon is an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization, a peer network of global business leaders in more than 80 nations, and Vistage International, the world's largest CEO membership organization. He is also the Founder and President of the Sundt Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring young people to make healthy choices and not use drugs through the Natural High ® DVD Series.
Jon majored in computer science and minored in economics at the University of California, San Diego.
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Bob Amedeo
Bob is a Director and an Executive Vice President of Altegris. From 1978 to 1980, Bob was employed by the SEC, Division of Enforcement. In March 1980, he joined a Chicago law firm, where he was made a partner in June 1985. In August 1985, he withdrew from this law firm and became "Of Counsel", a position he held until joining Altegris in June 2002. Beginning in 1985, Bob was President and a Director of Rockwell Futures Management, Inc. (now APM Funds), and until July 2002 was President of Rockwell Investments, Inc. (now Altegris Investments Inc.).
Bob is the past chairman of an advisory committee to the North American Association of Securities Administrators (NAASA) with respect to their Omnibus Committee's review of the NAASA Guidelines on Commodity Pool Programs. He has acted as a member of the NFA Hearing Committee and is currently the Chairman of its CPO/CTA Advisory Committee.
Bob is a Director and an Executive Vice President of Altegris Investments and a managing member of Altegris Capital. He currently serves as a Vice President and Director of APM Funds. Mr. Amedeo is a 1975 graduate of Northwestern University and received a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University in 1978.
Matt Osborne
Matt is the Chief Investment Officer of Altegris Investments, and leads the ManagedFutures.com team. He is responsible for building the firm’s platform of managed futures and hedge funds products. Matt brings 20 years of business and financial market experience to his role, leading the product review team's efforts to discover and evaluate investment talent. Prior to forming Altegris with Jon Sundt and Bob Amedeo, Matt was Director of Research for Man Financial's Managed Investments Division in La Jolla, California.
Matt had a 12-year career as Investment Manager with a preeminent family office in his native New Zealand prior to moving to the US. In this role, Matt was responsible for formulating investment policies and implementing a global asset allocation program that specialized in managed futures and hedge fund investment strategies. He also gained significant trading expertise in foreign currencies, stocks, fixed income, global futures and options. In his role as Corporate Treasurer for the family's manufacturing company, he was responsible for risk management in interest rates and foreign currencies as well as debt portfolio management.
Dick Pfister, CAIA
Dick has over 13 years of experience in the alternative investments arena. Over the course of his professional career, he has gained knowledge in trading and systems analysis. His research and commentary have been quoted in a variety of news publications. Throughout his career, he has established relationships with internationally known CTAs and hedge fund managers.
Dick began his career as a technical analyst and trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. After trading in the currency and stock index futures markets for several years, he managed the Global Macro CTA Trade Desk for Dean Witter Reynolds. Later, Dick became the Managing Editor of International Traders Research Inc. (ITR), a La Jolla, California-based former subsidiary of Man Financial's Managed Investments Division, a current affiliate of Altegris Investments, Inc.
Dick is a Director and an Executive Vice President of Altegris Investments, and a managing member of Altegris Capital. He currently serves as a Vice President and Director of APM Funds. His primary responsibilities include researching alternative investments, product review, and providing support to institutional clientele. He earned his degree at the University of San Diego, graduating with a concentration in Finance.
G. Maxwell Eagye
Max is the Director of Futures Operations for Altegris Investments, and a key member of the ManagedFutures.com team. Max joined Altegris in 1998 and is responsible for all aspects of Altegris's Futures and Trading business, including strategic relationships with Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) and service providers, oversight of trader and client services, and tracking of communication and cost flows.
A native San Diegan, Max gained experience in 1988 on the floor of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CSC) in New York while with B&J Commodities, and later in 1989 worked on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in grains, for the firm Rodman & Renshaw.
Max graduated from California State University, Chico in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration/Finance and holds his NASD Series 3 certification. Max is part of the Altegris Trade Services Group, which provides support and consulting services for CTAs and CPOs.
Steve Klawitter, CAIA
Steve is an Associate Vice President for Altegris Investments. As a member of the ManagedFutures.com team, he focuses his efforts on reviewing and recommending CTA programs to our clients, as well as producing the monthly CTA Report. His past experience as a Senior Research Associate at Altegris was heavily weighted toward maintaining the integrity of the International Traders Research database of CTA programs, performing ongoing review of the existing managed futures product platform, in addition to actively searching for new managers.
Previous to his experience at Altegris, Steve provided sales support for Morgan Stanley in their Portland, Oregon office. Steve has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Portland (Oregon). He holds the designation of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIAsm) as well as the NASD Series 3 and 7 certification. Steve is part of the Altegris Trade Services Group.
Mike Lock
Mike joined the Altegris team in June of 2005, and specializes in CTA servicing, management of FCM relationships, forensic accounting, cost control, execution services and client account analysis.
Mike began his career working as a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in Santa Rosa, CA, where he worked from July 2002 to August 2003. At Morgan Stanley, Mike specialized in portfolio analysis and construction with private clients. Mike graduated with honors from UC Davis in 2001 with Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Philosophy. He holds the designation NASD Series 3 and 31 certifications. Mike is part of the Altegris Trade Services Group.
Michael Ding, CFA, CPA
Michael is the Director of Research for Altegris Investments. He brings over 17 years of financial market experience to his role at Altegris. Michael was previously Vice President, Economic Research and Investment Management, for Abria Alternative Investments, Inc. in Toronto, Canada, where he worked since June of 2003. Prior to this, he was a Senior Investment Analyst in Alternative Investments for the National Bank of Canada, and a Hedge Fund Research Analyst for the Northern Trust Company, in addition to holding several financial analyst roles. Michael, as Director of Research, is responsible for performing ongoing monitoring of the existing Altegris platform of investment products and managers, as well as sourcing and reviewing hedge funds for addition to the Altegris platform.
Michael graduated from McGill University with a Master of Business Administration Degree in Finance. He previously graduated from The Maritime University of China with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics. Michael is a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois), a Certified General Accountant (Ontario, Canada), a CFA Charter Holder and a Registered Advisory Representative with the Ontario Security Commission.
Nick Maffeo
Nick joined the Altegris team in September of 2005 as a Research Associate. His current role consists of analyzing and monitoring Altegris’ current managed futures platform, as well as searching for new and emerging managed futures talent. Prior to joining Altegris, Mr. Maffeo was a Compliance Analyst at LPL Financial, analyzing client accounts to look for anomalies. Mr. Maffeo also gained experience at Legg Mason, a global asset management firm.
Nick graduated Cum Laude from Shippensburg University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance and a minor in Economics.
Rachel Huang
Rachel joined the Altegris team in January of 2007 as a Research Associate. Her current role consists of analyzing and monitoring hedge funds, as well as exploring new prominent products in the hedge fund universe. She also monitors CTA performance and risk on a daily basis. Rachel's previous experience includes working at JP Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited as a summer intern.
Prior to joining Altegris, Rachel received a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Zhejiang University.
Denis Gusakov
Denis joined the Altegris team in August of 2007 as a Research Intern after developing an interest in alternative investments during his graduate studies. His strong academic background in quantitative disciplines directed him to assume a role of managed futures analyst. Denis is responsible for the development and operations of the managed futures database and ongoing qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the CTA universe. Prior to joining Altegris, Mr. Gusakov was involved in several start up ventures, where he gained hands on finance and business development experience. Denis holds an MBA and BS in Finance from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management in San Diego, CA.






