EMC's investment programs seek to provide long-term positive returns with low correlation to equities and fixed income by capturing directional price movement, both up and down, in a globally diversified portfolio of liquid financial and commodity futures markets. Their programs employ quantitative, systematic trading models across a broad range of market sectors including currencies, interest rate futures, stock indices, precious and base metals, energies, agricultural and soft commodities. The programs feature a significant allocation to commodity futures as well as financial futures. EMC has developed and utilizes multiple proprietary independent trading systems that range in duration from 15 to 90 days. Individual systems are trend following and momentum based in nature and are designed to capture profits from directional price movement over different time frames and under different market conditions. EMC actively manages risk at every level of the portfolio using current market volatility, account equity, correlations and other portfolio components to quantify and limit risk at the trade, market,
sector and portfolio levels.