Commodity Portfolio Management Research & Reports
EDHEC-Risk Institute announces new indices & benchmarks
London, 17 Match 2011
EDHEC-Risk Institute has announced the creation of a spin-off, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks, which aims to be one of the leading beta designers for the investment industry. EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks will be based in London, New York, Nice and Singapore and has recruited two experienced executives to spearhead business development in Europe and North America.
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Remarks, Implementing the Dodd-Frank Act: Gensler
Washington, 14 January 2011
"The 2008 financial crisis left us with many lessons and many challenges to tackle. As the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, I swim in the derivatives lane. In July of last year, Congress passed – and the President signed – the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to, among other things, bring the unregulated over-the-counter derivatives markets under comprehensive regulation. Those derivatives, also known as “swaps,” were not the only cause of the 2008 financial crisis, but they played a significant role.
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Final elements of the regulatory capital reforms: BIS
Basel, January 2011
The Basel Committee has issued minimum requirements to ensure that all classes of capital instruments fully absorb losses at the point of non-viability before taxpayers are exposed to loss. These requirements were endorsed by the Committee's oversight body, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, at its 10 January meeting. Members agreed that under certain conditions, including a peer review process and disclosure, the proposal's objective could be met through a statutory resolution regime if it produces equivalent outcomes to the contractual approach.
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Floods in Australia: Legal implications for Commodity Traders
London, January 2011
Australia has endured one of the wettest spring seasons in its recorded history. Heavy rain in November and December in eastern Australia caused river levels to rise and flood plains to become saturated. This led to widespread localised flooding and to the severe floods reported by the global media over the New Year period.
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Commodity Investors Seek Absolute Returns, Active Strategies
London, 12 December 2010
Barclays Capital has launched the Commodities Research Index: Increasingly, institutional investors are turning to commodities to provide absolute returns, and are employing active strategies to do so, according to a survey of more than 300 attendees at Barclays Capital’s sixth annual US Commodities Investor Conference last week.
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New EDHEC-Risk Institute Research on Corporate Pension Funds
London, 12 December 2010
New EDHEC-Risk Institute Research Questions Current Corporate Pension Fund ALM Practices and Proposes a New Integrated Model for Analysing the Capital Structure of Corporate Sponsors and Pension Fund Allocation Decisions.
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What the Election Means for US Economic Policy
London, 5 November 2010
Let’s put the economic policies the voters chose under the microscope and see what we got. It is not a pretty picture. The bottom line is that my scenario of a lethargic 2-2.5% GDP growth rate continues for the foreseeable future. Here are the reasons why:
Dodd-Frank Swap Reporting Update
October, 2010
The CFTC and the SEC have released rules that will require swap parties to report all security-based and all other swap transactions entered into before July 21, 2010, and that have not expired as of that date.
Ten Reasons why India will never become a superpower
London, September 2010
At a recent symposium organized by the Nyenrode Business School in the Netherlands, Indian historian Ramachandra Guha claimed there are ten good reasons why India will never be a superpower. According to Guha the remarkable economic growth that the country has experienced in recent years hides a “multitude of sins” that are exposed when dissecting a nation that he calls “a unique political experiment” that “was not designed to survive as a nation”.
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ETF and ETP Report: August 2010
London, September 2010
At the end of August 2010 the global ETF industry had 2,308 ETFs with 4,922 listings, assets of US$1,064.4 Bn from 129 providers on 43 exchanges around the world. Additionally, there were 874 other Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with 1,439 listings and assets of US$135.0 Bn from 48 providers on 20 exchanges.
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