Derivatives & Trading

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

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Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Stan Luxenberg	Currency Plays For The Retail Set At a time when most experts expect the dollar to keep sinking, the Dodge & Cox fund is using futures to bet that the U.S. currency will rise.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Brad Zigler	How To Play The Agriculture Game Commodities' popularity with retail investors ebbs and flows with the inflation cycle. Should you invest in the stocks of companies involved in commodity production, ETFs, or futures?
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Gene Fama	The Big Mo In tough and volatile market climates, advisors often cast about for alternatives to stocks and bonds. One such alternative is hedge funds.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Morgan Housel	Hedge Fund Pay That Will Make Your Head Hurt Sit down before you read how much the top five highest paid hedge fund managers take home in a year.
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Ivy Schmerken	Putnam Investments Sees Competitive Advantage in Building OTC Derivatives Pricing Engine In-House To verify prices from brokers and other outside sources, Putnam Investments developed an internal OTC derivatives valuation engine using grid computing.
Wall Street & Technology April 11, 2008 Cory Levine	Hedge Funds Say Technology Is Critical to Business Hedge funds are focusing their technology efforts on improving automation around OTC derivatives, as well as adding collateral management technology and exerting better control over prime brokerage charges and rates, according to a new Aite survey.
Financial Advisor April 2008 Eric L. Reiner	Hedging Your Bets Richard Lee Jr. presides over the 50-person Dallas advisory Lee Financial Corp. A private placement fund of hedge funds that Richard Lee Jr. uses for clients returned nearly 20% last year.
Finance & Development March 2008 Simon Johnson	Straight Talk: Inside Risks When financial turmoil has major effects, credit derivatives provide useful early warnings for the macroeconomy.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Morgan Housel	This Fortress Has No Moat Fortress Investment Group, the first U.S. hedge fund to go public, is under siege.
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