Contango
Institutional investors to favour more active, smart beta approach to...
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Source: Structured Products
Seeking performance while at the same time increasingly needing to control risk makes smart beta thematic index approaches such as low volatility, minimum variance and risk-weighted strategies increasingly...
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Source: Energy Risk
The traditional contango of the UK natural gas curve has smoothed out in recent weeks, with summer seasons now at parity and the winters either on a par or even dipping into backwardation. Tom Woolley...
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Source: Energy Risk
CFTC and Goldman Sachs executives discuss role of speculators in commodities markets during times of volatility
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Dow Jones adds contango-reducing strategy to its index suite
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Source: Structured Products
Dow Jones Indexes has launched a commodity index series that seeks to minimise the contango effect on index performance using a strategy that selects futures contracts exhibiting the least amount of contango
ETFs linked to agricultural commodities surge as supply tightens
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Source: Structured Products
Exchange-traded funds linked to some agricultural commodities such as wheat have seen the strongest investment inflows over the first part of the year, with soft commodities presenting low or stretched inventory levels leading the trend
Risk managers seek understanding of structured products investor trends...
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Source: Structured Products
Investment in commodity markets is at record highs on the back of indexes, exchange-traded products and structured products. With appetite set to remain strong this year, working out investor trends is becoming increasingly important for energy risk managers....
Volatility products hit by negative roll yield
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Source: Risk magazine
Some volatility products aimed at investors have performed poorly so far this year – more so than the movement in volatility indexes would imply. The cost of rolling into new index futures contracts has been blamed for the losses. Can dealers adapt...
The rise and fall of commodities
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Source: Structured Products
Commodities have asserted themselves as one of the dominant asset classes in the last few years and consequently they are becoming more readily available to investors. However they do not come without their problems and whether the more exotic classes...
Low natural gas prices push producers to oil
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Source: Energy Risk
US producers move to oil plays, 2011 natural gas hedging programmes not expected to support current production levels
Europe jet fuel price recovering as flights resume after volcanic ash...
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Source: Energy Risk
The Europe-wide flight ban resulting from volcanic ash clouds has cost the jet fuel market 500,000 tonnes-worth of demand this month, with logistical congestion expected to remain until the end of the week.
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