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Features
New CFE to launch volatility index future
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has had to open a futures trading market in order to launch the VIX Futures based on its VIX Volatility Index product. It is due be launched in March as the first product listed on the new Chicago Future Exchange electronic market. Up to now ...
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S&P broadens out
Eudald Canadell, who runs the European index operation for Standard & Poor’s has decided views on many things, including the recent purchase after protracted negotiations of the equity indices business of Citigroup, the former Salomon Smith Barney products. In one swoop, S&P broadened its offering from a being a major ...
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Key area of fund focus
Managing risk has shot to the top of the agenda for most pension funds this decade. While some capital erosion was unavoidable in the years of tumbling market values, trustees are demanding that everything be done to see that funds are better prepared the next time stocks take a dive. ...
