PFGBest Update: Insuring the Future
We have always thought that a SIPC-style insurance fund for segregated account holders was the single most important step needed to restore confidence in the industry. We need to make it clear that this is what the industry and those who use futures markets to invest want – need – in order to continue investing and trading with confidence. Please consider aiding the cause by taking a few minutes to answer the survey, and help us show just how important insurance is to the customers and businesses that make up this industry.
PFGBest Update: The Remaining Pieces
It’s taken far longer than we would have liked, but the loose threads in the PFGBest fiasco are being wrapped up, one by one. Most of the assets have been auctioned off, the trustee is sorting out and verifying the many customer claims they received, and now we even have a target date for the liquidation of the Cedar Falls headquarters.
The Latest Legal Eagles: Hedge Funds
Managed futures and hedge funds are often lumped together, and may share a few similarities, but there have been a few hedge funds in the news lately over things that you just won’t see CTAs doing.
Futures Industry Tectonics, Part II
The competition between ICE and CME Group, has been increasingly fierce lately. First, there was the announcement that ICE has reached an agreement to purchase NYSE Euronext – potentially making it the third largest futures exchange in the world. Now there are reports that the CME may be considering a merger move of its own, joining up with the Eurex exchange in what could represent an unprecedented consolidation of the global futures trade.
Ignoring the Biggest CTA Trade in Years
Several news organizations couldn’t help but fall all over themselves this week talking about how George Soros made a billion in the Yen and other U.S. funds scored big in the Yen. But when the press started pointing out the big winners this week, we couldn’t help but notice a glaring omission: no mention of CTAs. We can’t even get a mention?
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