This may be the year for active managers investing heavily in the energy space — and commodity trading advisors, known as CTAs, appear to be among the winners.iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF"CTA hedge funds try to capitalize on big shifts in the market. And right now we're in the middle of a huge regime shift," the firm's managing member told CNBC's "And that shift is working to attract Beer and others in his field to energy.
"As inflation comes back, [CTAs] are finding different ways to make money on it," he said. "What we do in our ETF is basically try to understand what trades they're doing and ... copy it in a low-cost, efficient way in an ETF to bring access to a broader base."