a group of littleknown mutual funds that follow trends in financial markets have capitalized on the dollar’s rise and the big drop in the bond market to rack up outsize returns this year the alphasimplex managed futures strategy fund ticker asfyx  was up 477 this year through friday and the aqr managed futures strategy has gained 407 morningstar data show similar funds which aim to achieve returns that aren’t correlated with stock and bond markets are up an average of more than 20 so far in 2022