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Investment managers and other market participants should drop the financial jargon when dealing with pension, foundation and endowment boards and understand the full distribution beyond mean and standard deviation when pitching option-based investment programmes, according to Ryan Bailey, former investment officer and interim chief investment officer at Meadows Foundation. He gave his outline for best practices for firms dealing with allocators on the pension, foundation and endowment use of options panel. Rob McGlinchey reports.
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Ed Tilly, CBOE chief executive, sat down with Peter Thompson on Monday March 17 for an exclusive Q&A to talk about what stage the exchange is at on new product development, the extension of trading hours and how the RMC, in its 30th anniversary, has developed in recent years.
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The changing sources of volatility demand has led to more vega being traded in VIX futures and VIX exchange-traded products over listed S&P 500 and SPDR S&P 500 ETF options. In a presentation on the shifting landscape of volatility products, Maneesh Deshpande, head of Americas equity derivatives strategy at Barclays, identifies the changing trends in volatility demands and the likely market outlook for the VIX and volatility products. Rob McGlinchey reports.
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After more than 10 years since futures on the VIX began trading on the CBOE Futures Exchange, GlobalCapital Derivatives hosted a roundtable with senior buyside and exchange officials to look at how the exchange-traded and over-the-counter volatility markets have progressed in recent years. The topics of discussion included whether volatility has reached a point where it can be considered an asset class, implementation considerations for investors looking to allocate to volatility and persistent low liquidity in European and Asian volatility products.
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By Scott Maidel, senior portfolio manager at Russell Investments
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Buysiders grappled with the question of whether volatility can be observed as an asset class in a lively institutional investor panel session at the conference.