Range Wise

Portfolio Manager: William Plummer - Bill has been trading agricultural commodity futures and options since 1969. Bill has actively participated in the futures and cash markets as a floor broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and account executive with various brokerage firms as well as trading his own personal account. <br><br> Prior to establishing Range Wise and Frontier Risk Management, an Introducing Broker that specializes in assisting commercial agricultural entities with managing their commodity price risk. Bill served as a Vice President and Director of the Livestock and Meat Trading Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. During his tenure, he developed their commercial meat futures business and traded a livestock portfolio for the firm's proprietary account. Bill and his team also developed an intricate portfolio hedging model for use by the firm and its institutional clients to quantify risk relationships in the hedging of live animal production. He also orchestrated the creation of a sophisticated system for the forward pricing of meat and meat products, as well as the management of price risk associated with the production and ownership of meat inventories. <br><br> While a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1972 to 1991, Bill served on various committees, including Commodity Representative and Customer Complaints, and Business Conduct. He is also a founding trustee of the Commodity Futures Political Action Committee and the National Introducing Brokers Association. Bill has also served on the nominating committee of the NFA.