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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has partnered with MSCI to offer options trading on six MSCI indices. The move comes with broad based asset managers devoting more of their portfolios to non-US exposure for diversification purposes.
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Investors have been taking profit on FX options trades that were entered into ahead of the OPEC meeting that took place on November 27. -
Asset managers, including hedge funds and others, are increasingly using equity index derivatives and futures to better allocate capital, minimise transaction costs and execute international exposure strategies, according to a report by market research firm TABB Group.
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Retail investors and asset managers have been shorting volatility via exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes, building up a short position of more than $135m in vega, the highest short net position in ETFs and ETNs to date. That is a potential source of instability.
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Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to judge the clearing house regimes of other jurisdictions equivalent, as the clearing mandate edges closer in Europe.
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Fast money investors had been buying short-dated volatility in iTraxx Main in the run up to the European Central Bank meeting on December 4, with sellers of volatility returning afterwards. This a theme that has been recurring in the credit options market pre- and post-ECB meetings.
