Derivatives & Trading

Magazine articles on active trading strategies, hedge funds, futures, options, and other derivatives.

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Inc. January 2006 Jennifer Gill	Striking Out With VCs? As venture capitalists become more risk averse, more early-stage companies are tapping the hot hedge fund market.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Rich Duprey	Will the SEC Trim the Hedges? As hedge funds are immersing themselves even more in mergers and acquisitions, a field that is fast approaching $1 trillion a year, it's not surprising that they will now also find themselves under closer scrutiny by regulators.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Jim Fink	Dueling Fools: Options Bull Are options beneficial to investors? The real question is this: Why would anybody increase his or her risk and waste margin to own stock?
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Chuck Saletta	Dueling Fools: Options Bear Hedging, speculation, and arbitrage are fabulous processes enabled by options. Unfortunately, in their other big use -- as part of executives' compensation programs, options often cause more problems than they're worth.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Peter Coy	How Hedge Funds Are Taking On Mother Nature Hedge funds hope to cash in on catastrophe insurance, whose price has zoomed since Katrina wreaked $38 billion in insured losses.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Anne Tergesen	Hedge Funds: Do-It-Yourself Due Diligence A little sleuthing online can turn up information that may signal trouble ahead for hedge fund investors.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 John B. Levy	Wider Spreads Yield Opportunity Commercial mortgage-backed securities spreads have a habit of tightening early in the New Year, and the smart money seems to be betting on that occurring again in early 2006. But a new CMBS player has emerged, too -- hedge funds.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Coca-Cola Conflict on Campus Who would have thought that a money-losing hedge fund that embarked on a quest to kill Coke (or at least its stock price) would find itself dependent on the anticapitalist youth movement to save its bacon?
Investment Advisor January 2006 Jeff Joseph	Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Full Speed Ahead for Hedge Funds SEC regulation, demand for additional transparency, and tales of occasional fraud are but speed bumps on a trajectory that could see hedge fund assets quadruple by the end of the decade.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Stan Laxenberg	Hot Stuff Commodity fund manager Jim Rogers has demonstrated a knack for finding the hottest markets. Here is his advice for the current market situation and some fund recommendations.
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