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Hedge Funds & Listed Options: Portfolio Management Strategies
A key feature of hedge funds lies in their high level of flexibility in the selection of investment, hedging and trading strategies. Equity and equity index options offer these funds many alternative ways to manage risks and implement views. This paper describes just a few of many potential strategies for...
Portfolio Management Strategies
A key feature of hedge funds lies in their high level of flexibility in the selection of investment, hedging and trading strategies. Equity and equity index options offer these funds many alternative ways to manage risks and implement views. This paper describes just a few of many potential strategies for...
Corporate Stock Repurchase Programs & Listed Options: Portfolio Management Strategies
In recent years, hundreds of U.S. corporations have engaged in programs to repurchase tens of billions of dollars worth of shares of their own stocks. A number of corporations have used options strategies in conjunction with stock buyback programs. This document explores ways to improve corporate finance by using listed...
High-Net-Worth Investors & Listed Options Portfolio Management Strategies for Affluent Investors, Family Offices, and Trust Companies
With the tremendous growth in the number of high-net-worth investors in the United States over the past couple decades, various investment tools have been utilized to help these investors meet their financial goals - goals that often include preservation and growth of capital, and deferral and minimization of taxes. This...
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SAND Welcomes Tom O'Donnell to Board of Directors
MONTREAL, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAND Technology, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: SNDTF) , an international provider of intelligent enterprise information management software, today announced an important addition to its Board of Directors. SAND is very pleased that Thomas O'Donnell, a successful, seasoned business executive and CEO and founder...
The NASDAQ Options Market Joins The Options Industry Council
The NASDAQ Options Market has become a memberof The Options Industry Council (OIC). The NASDAQ Options Market joins themember firms and other exchanges of OIC (American Stock Exchange, ChicagoBoard Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NYSE Arca,Philadelphia Stock Exchange and The Options Clearing Corporation) inhelping to promote the use of equity...
CME Group Inc. Reports Record First-Quarter Revenues and Earnings
CHICAGO, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group Inc. today reported total revenues increased 88 percent to $625 million and net income increased 118 percent to $284 million for first-quarter 2008 compared with first-quarter 2007. Diluted earnings per share rose 42 percent to $5.25. These GAAP results...
FlexTrade Opens Office in Chicago
Ted Bilharz Appointed Vice President, Options Sales GREAT NECK, N.Y. -- FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a global leader in broker-neutral, multi-asset algorithmic trading systems, today announced the opening of a field office in Chicago. Located at 200 South Wacker Drive, the office will be managed by Ted Bilharz, who...
chicago board options exchange Begins Trading Options on General Steel Holdings, Inc
BEIJING, March 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- General Steel Holdings, Inc. ("General Steel"), (the "Company"), (NYSE Arca: GSI), announced today that the Chicago Board Options Exchange has begun trading options on General Steel. The Lead Options Market Maker is Susquehanna International Group. General Steel is one of China's leading non-state...
CME Group Statement to Clarify Erroneous Crain's Chicago Business Article
CHICAGO, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In an article today, it was reported that CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy and Vice Chairman Charlie Carey rejected a settlement offer from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). This is untrue. As this is a class action lawsuit, only the class and...
SEC rules on ERPs
CBOE TAKES THIS ROUND In January, the securities and Exchange Commission (sec) ruled in favor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in its plea to eliminate former Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) members' CBOE exercise rights, clearing a big hurdle for the demutualization of CBOE. ...
Eberle to head Man Investments USA
Uwe Eberle is now CEO and president of Man Investments Inc., USA. He became CEO for Man's institutional business in August 2006 and is now responsible for leading Man's U.S. institutional initiative. "I'm excited at the prospect of developing the achievements of the team as we continue to introduce innovative...
Exchange trades up to 10 gigabit: the consensus was to standardize the data center from end to end on a single vendor's products
Joe Sternbauer, director of electrical engineering at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), has witnessed his organization's evolution from a mainframe-computing environment utilizing coax and shielded cabling to a distributed PC environment using unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cables. When the CBOE's data center network infrastructure needed upgrading, he played a major...
W&A Publishing Offers Fifth Book On Trading And Investing: "The Rookie's Guide to Options: The Beginner's Handbook of Trading Equity Options"
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- W&A Publishing announces immediate availability of "The Rookie's Guide to Options: The Beginner's Handbook of Trading Equity Options" by Mark D. Wolfinger. The cover price is U.S. $34.95 and orders can be placed online at www.w-apublishing.com. Learn to use options from veteran option trader...
New For Traders
EXCHANGES Eurex launched Eurex secLend, an electronic marketplace for secured securities lending and borrowing, based on the Eurex Repo markets. The product is designed to help banks and financial service providers improve the performance of their securities holdings with securities lending.www.eurexrepo.com The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) introduced...
Exchanges to SEC: Penny Pilot is Bad for Business.
Three of the options industry's six exchanges are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to halt the progress of the ongoing penny pilot. The International Securities Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, which collectively handle two-thirds...
Options Executives Sound Off.
The heads of the seven U.S. options exchanges are an unruly bunch, but Anthony McCormick, vice president for equity options at Charles Schwab & Co., got quick answers out of them at the annual Futures Industry Association Expo in November. The panel speculated widely on the...
The alternative markets are upon us: Csiszar: Chicago's alternative finance empire will rule insurance
Pearl Jam and Nirvana were "alternative" rock bands in the early 1990s, but their music, as emulated by countless groups today, is now mainstream. Such is the ease with alternative risk transfer. "It really isn't the alternative market anymore. It's the market," said Ernst Csiszar. Soon...
Urbana Corporation Purchases 3 Additional CBOE Memberships
Urbana Corporation ("Urbana") (TSX: URB.A) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to purchase another 3 memberships on the Chicago Board Options Exchange ("CBOE"), a private entity. The total cost of this purchase is approximately US$9,075,000. Urbana now owns a total of 18 CBOE memberships in...
Urbana Corporation Purchases 3 Additional CBOE Memberships.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Nov 21, 2007 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Urbana Corporation ("Urbana") (TSX:URB.A) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to purchase another 3 memberships on the Chicago Board Options Exchange ("CBOE"), a private entity. The total cost of...
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