CoreCommodity Management, LLC (“CoreCommodity” or “we”) was formed under the laws of
the State of Delaware on November 10, 2003 and engages in the business of offering advisory and
portfolio management services to pooled vehicles, registered investment companies and managed
accounts (collectively “Accounts”). On April 16, 2012, we changed our name from Jefferies Asset
Management, LLC (“JAM”) to CoreCommodity Management, LLC. We have been registered as
an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) since January 20,
2006. We are a member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”), registration number
0340119, and have been registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (the
“CFTC”) as a commodity trading advisor since April 2008, and as a commodity pool operator
since January 2013.
CoreCommodity’s principal place of business is in Stamford, Connecticut, where we perform
portfolio management, research, trading, operations, accounting, legal and compliance functions.
Prior to September 2013, CoreCommodity was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC
(“Jefferies Group”), which has merged with and into Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF)
(“Jefferies”) as of November 1, 2022. As a result of a transaction between CoreCommodity’s
senior management and Jefferies Group, on or about September 11, 2013, CoreCommodity
became an independent asset manager controlled by our senior management, with Jefferies
retaining a significant economic interest in CoreCommodity Such interest is held by Leucadia
Asset Management Holdings LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies. Adam De Chiara and
Bradford Klein
are the Co-Presidents of CoreCommodity.
We currently offer various investment programs, certain of which we offer through our Investor
Solutions Group (“ISG”). ISG shares in our general research and investment policy-making
efforts, but ISG maintains separate portfolio management and trading personnel.
Our investment advice relates primarily to commodities. We may trade commodity futures,
options on futures, commodity equities, over-the-counter (“OTC”) swaps on commodities and
commodity indexes, depending on the strategy. We also trade U.S. Treasury Inflation Protection
Securities (“TIPS”), other U.S. Treasury securities and other short term sovereign debt for
collateral management.
To the extent that clients engage us to provide investment advice in a separately managed account
(“SMA”) format, we manage the SMA in accordance with the investment guidelines agreed to
with the client. In the case of our clients that are pooled vehicles and registered investment
companies, we manage these Accounts in accordance with their respective offering document or
prospectus.
As of December 31, 2023, we managed assets totaling approximately $8.4 billion on a
discretionary basis. We do not manage assets on a non-discretionary basis. Our assets under
management are calculated as follows: SMAs are valued at agreed-upon notional value and
commingled vehicles are valued at net asset value. Assets under management in this Item 4 include
Accounts to which we provide advice relating to commodity futures which may not meet the
definition of “securities portfolios” in Item 5.F of Form ADV Part 1A.