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Fears over China slowdown hit commodities hedging
After some painful experiences in recent years, mining companies remain largely unhedged – despite a jump in metals volatility and the threat of a Chinese downturn. Could they end up regretting it?
In this paper, Dan Mahoney and Krzysztof Wolyniec show that in co-integrated (mean-reverting) futures markets, active dynamic hedging is required to realise the quadratic variation of the underlying...
Nasdaq’s new commodity index family aims to offer broadest exposure to the asset class and comes in five different roll versions
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Alpha commodity indexes: a sustainable source of absolute returns?
Investor interest in alpha commodity index products has surged over the past year and banks are hard at work creating more of them. Can these exotic new instruments really provide a sustainable source of absolute return? And is the market getting too...
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The risks faced by energy/commodity firms need to be assessed via metrics that allow for longer-term outlooks and incorporate risks from asset-backed trading. In the second article in this series, Chris Strickland discusses the range of such metrics available...
Michael Cosgrove to leave GFI Group
GFI Group has announced the departure of energy and commodities broking veteran Michael Cosgrove
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With inflation-linked government bond markets still in their infancy in Asia, regional investors are turning to precious metals, commodities and other real assets to protect portfolios against rising prices. Exchange-traded products are emerging as an...
ETF investors gain commodities exposure
Commodities have returned to the structured products spotlight as providers come up with new, more efficient ways of gaining exposure to the asset class and explore innovative ways to package commodity-based investments
Volcker rule to pummel US energy industry: IHS
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