Commodities
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
Asia Risk commodity rankings 2012
Asia Risk commodity rankings 2012
Fears over China slowdown hit commodities hedging
Undermining commodities hedging
Valuation of commodity structures in co-integrated futures markets
Valuation of commodity structures in co-integrated futures markets
Nasdaq ventures into commodity futures indexing
Nasdaq’s new commodity index family aims to offer broadest exposure to the asset class and comes in five different roll versions
Alpha commodity indexes: a sustainable source of absolute returns?
The alpha trackers
Palm oil producers look to lock in high prices
With crude palm oil prices rising 30% in the last six months, interest in hedging downside risk from palm oil producers is on the increase. So are producers locking in prices now or waiting for the market to rise even further?
Strong first quarter for commodity ETPs shows increased appetite for broad-based exposure
Commodity exchange-traded products see biggest quarterly rise in inflows in almost two years, driven not only by gold but also a wider range of commodities