Commodities
Commodity position limits cause Mifid II confusion
Commodity position limits cause Mifid II confusion
Merchant Capital offers the best of three mixed portfolios
Looking back at three
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Trade of the month: Dual directional products
Structured Products Asia: Short-term opportunities in the spotlight
Short-term saviours
Ex-Credit Suisse bankers founding energy risk advisory firm
Former head of power trading joins at least one ex-colleague to found Scoville Risk Partners
Demand for commodity-linked structured products ‘almost dead’
Panellists at the Structured Products Asia conference were downbeat over the prospects for commodity-linked structures
Commodities house of the year: Commerzbank
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Index innovation: Société Générale
Structured Products Asia Awards 2012
Outlook for commodity trading in Asia
Eye to the east
Asia exotic commodity derivatives use to fall further on Ice initiative
Exotic commodity derivatives will become even less attractive to the Asian market following Ice's move to transform swaps to futures
Commodity alpha strategies suffer from surge in grain prices
Rising grain prices resulting from drought conditions in the US prompt unwinding of positions as banks work to add additional signals into alpha strategy algorithms
FSMA consultation reveals disparity over structured product complexity in Belgium
Participants in the structured products industry in Belgium remain at loggerheads over key points from the Financial Services and Markets Authority moratorium
ANZ launches China-centric commodity index
Australian bank unveils commodity index in bid to better reflect China market influence
Commodities see biggest falls since Lehman Brothers collapse
Global commodity markets could be signalling a severe downturn as indexes tracking the sector show the sharpest falls since late 2008
Commodity ETP activity drops 24% in a week, driven by precious metal fund outflows
Activity in commodity exchange-traded products falls sharply amid poor performance of the asset class
New head of commodities at Musi
Robert Forgrave has joined Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International as head of commodities
BNP Paribas gets ETFs under way in the US with dynamic roll commodities strategy
BNP Paribas has debuted its first ETF in the US, utilising the dynamic roll strategy to offer investors efficient commodity exposure
Lack of local market-makers hampers the development of Asean ETFs
A reliance on external players is holding back the ETF sector in Malaysia and Indonesia
US farm lenders fear clearing will trip leverage ratio
Posted collateral cannot be used to offset liabilities when calculating farm credit banks' leverage ratio
Outlook for corporate hedging as banks pull back from energy markets
A shrinking pool
Former SG executives launch multi-commodity discretionary hedge fund
Ex-SG commodities executives Christophe Cordonnier, Frédéric Lasserre and François Beuzelin launch broad-based discretionary fund
Dynamic commodity strategies in demand as investors seek flexible exposure
Third-generation, dynamic commodity strategies are on the rise as increasingly sophisticated investors seek to capitalise on fast-changing trends in commodities
Mongolia: First steppes
First steppes
Initiatives promote commodity derivatives in Brazil
Seeds of change