New York (HedgeCo.net) – Golden Networking’s Derivatives Leaders Forum 2010, “Strategies for Increasing Profits under an Evolving Regulatory Framework” is being held, July 22nd in New York. The forum will feature a discussion on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation on how derivatives are being used in hedge funds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
“These days, bond funds use fixed-income derivatives to obtain exposure to certain kinds of investments, or to hedge their risks.” the Wall Street Journal reported, “It’s also common for large-cap stock funds—particularly index funds—to use stock futures contracts as a way to manage their cash positions and to cope with big inflows and redemption demands by their investors. For instance, when a fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index gets a sudden inflow of cash, it can buy stock futures immediately and then gradually convert that into stock of the 500 companies in the index. ”
“It wasn’t until the new millennium that derivatives usage became widespread in at least one niche of the fund market, the rapidly growing universe of index-linked ETFs. Largely responsible for that popularity is a small subsection of that group—the volatile vehicles known as leveraged and inverse leveraged index funds. They aim, respectively, to provide two or three times the return of a specific index, or two or three times the inverse of the index’s return. The existence of swaps made possible strategies that wouldn’t have been legal otherwise, since they would have required the kind of leverage that the 1940 act specifically bans,” the Wall Street Journal said.
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Golden Networking’s Derivatives Leaders Forum 2010 will provide attendees with answers to questions on how to successfully navigate the new regulatory landscape for over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives, devise profit-increasing strategies to enhance the performance of trading desks and anticipate developments in the industry.
