Web Seminar: ?Hedge Funds:The Next Wave in Energy Trading? (Tuesday, October 5, 2004 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm Eastern)
Global Change Associates and Utilipoint have completed the first study on energy hedge funds entitled "Hedge Funds Enter the Energy Trading Space."
The authors of the study have identified over 200 hedge funds active in the energy space and will offer a web seminar to present a concise overview of how hedge funds are impacting trading in energy markets. The entrance of energy hedge funds in commodity trading is new, and they are bringing both liquidity and more price volatility to the global energy markets. Their presence is accelerating the financialization of energy markets. This seminar will be based on the current research of Global Change Associates and Utilipoint International representing the first ground breaking analysis of what hedge funds are doing in the energy space.
Get up to speed in one hour and a quarter on what is really happening in energy markets for oil, gas, power, and coal trading today.
Your instructors are best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron and energy risk management strategist Peter C. Fusaro and Dr. Gary M. Vasey; Utilipoint's guru on energy trading & risk management. Seminar highlights include: ?Why energy trading has changed forever ?Who are these guys: What actually is a hedge fund? ?Why the energy markets are now more financially focused ?What's the future role of utilities in this new trading dynamic ?What are the impacts on market structure ?What are the technology choices available ?What's going to happen next in energy tradingFor further information on registering for the seminar please click to www.pgsenergytraining,.com.
Please contact Peter Fusaro or Gary Vasey for more information and free press passes for bona fide members of the press to this event.e-mail protected from spam bots e-mail protected from spam bots.???About Global Change Associates, Inc.Global Change Associates, based in New York (www.global-change.com), is a leading consultancy in energy and environmental commodity risk management.
GCA is at the forefront of revealing changes in energy trading and risk management, and has been the market leader in energy trading, energy e-commerce, and Enron competitive analysis studies. Company chairman, Peter Fusaro is the author of New York Times best seller What Went Wrong at Enron and has authored six books on energy and environmental trading and will release Energy Hedging in Asia this fall through MacMillan. The company holds the annual Green Trading Summit in New York City.About UtiliPoint International, Inc.???Utilipoint International (www.utilipoint.com)???With origins dating to 1933, UtiliPoint International, Inc. is a leader in providing research-based consulting to the utility industry.
UtiliPoint analysts have provided strategic business plans and studies on information technology, and its impact on utility operations.
Direct experiences include work in trading/risk management, outsourcing, CIS, billing, CRM, metering, AMR, demand response, work/outage management, supply chain, ERP, call centers, rates/pricing products, and IT architectural design.
The firm is also the publisher of IssueAlert?, an analysis of the utility and energy industry's hot topics sent to over 34,000 utility and energy executives daily.??????.
Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
San Francisco, CA (ContentDesk) March 24, 2006 -- Exchange Traded Funds have broken the barrier of yet another sector. The move of Exchange Traded Funds into the commodities sector continued after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved rule changes that would allow Barclays iShares Silver Trust, to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange. This gives investors yet more choices in the ETF marketplace. The iShares Silver Trust will be backed by silver held in London vaults. It will be modeled after the StreetTracks
Gold Trust ETF.
This is expected to soak up much of the available supply of
silver, which will increase demand and drive up prices. This has temporarily affected the gold market. Some investors are now selling gold and buying silver in anticipation of a price run up in silver. This market is very volatile as it has always been. The SEC does not think this new fund will put a squeeze on the supply of silver.
Others have a different...
Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
Hedge funds > Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
San Francisco, CA (ContentDesk) March 24, 2006 -- Exchange Traded Funds have broken the barrier of yet another sector. The move of Exchange Traded Funds into the commodities sector continued after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved rule changes that would allow Barclays iShares Silver Trust, to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange. This gives investors yet more choices in the ETF marketplace. The iShares Silver Trust will be backed by silver held in London vaults. It will be modeled after the StreetTracks
Gold Trust ETF.
This is expected to soak up much of the available supply of
silver, which will increase demand and drive up prices. This has temporarily affected the gold market. Some investors are now selling gold and buying silver in anticipation of a price run up in silver. This market is very volatile as it has always been. The SEC does not think this new fund will put a squeeze on the supply of silver.
Others have a different...
Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
Hedge funds > Highest Silver Prices in Twenty Years Attributed to New Exchange Traded Fund
AMG Capital Group Launches Service To Provide Access To Futures Funds
AMG Capital Group, LLC today announced its formation as a wholesaler specializing in providing Broker Dealers, Registered Investment Advisors, and Financial Planners with access to public U.S. commodity funds and other domestic and offshore alternative investments.
George Y. Shinn, Founder and Managed Director of the new firm, was formerly a managing principal a CTA/CPO that places asset allocations with Commodity Trading Advisors on behalf of individual investors and fund of funds. Prior to that, Mr.
Shinn was Director of Operations for International Trader's Research, a leading CTA database service provider in La Jolla, California.
Mr. Shinn said AMG will operate independently as a wholesaler, but will also seek to develop partnerships with alternative asset management firms to construct portfolios of alternative investment managers. AMG plans to utilize proprietary research and in-depth knowledge of the industry to deliver access to the top risk-adjusted trading...
Hedge funds > AMG Capital Group Launches Service To Provide Access To Futures Funds
Advice for international investors on how to safeguard their profits
What are the risks?Today, investors are increasingly turning to global markets to find opportunities for profit, giving urgency to the issue of protecting returns from foreign exchange risk. While there are many excellent investment opportunities to be found all over the world, volatility in the currency markets can and does affect the profitability of these investments. An understanding of how currency rate movements can affect profits can help investors protect their bottom line from this uncertainty.A vivid example of how currency volatility can impact profits occurred in 2004. When the US stock market rallied, investors from Europe converted their euros into dollars and sent them to America to take advantage of these opportunities. Even though there was a 30% gain in the US stock market that year, it was accompanied by a 22% decline in the value of the dollar.
Although the European investors had earned substantial returns on their stock investments, their profits were reduced...
Advice for international investors on how to safeguard their profits
Hedge funds > Advice for international investors on how to safeguard their profits
The Hedge Fund Headache
The Hedge Fund HeadacheByHedge Funds are dangerous. They play with the D-bomb and Hedge Fund managersdon't know what they are doing. They are like children playing with alandmine in a sandbox. It's fun and exciting until the darn thing goes off.A D-bomb explosion would have the same impact on the global financialmarket, as an H-bomb would have denoted over Salt Lake City. The resultwould be a multi-century wasteland after the explosion.
A D-bomb explosionmeans that our Civilization will be facing a new multi-century Dark Age.The D-bomb is the Derivatives Market. In theory, derivatives are balancedrisk investments that allow Hedge Funds, banks, insurance companies andothers to profit from the spread created by the bet. The three designproblems with D-bombs are that the risk is usually an either or option thatdoesn't factor in a third alternative. Many bundled derivatives havecomponents that don't represent outside financial instruments that mighthave value after a D-bomb explosion....
The Hedge Fund Headache
Hedge funds > The Hedge Fund Headache
The Best Performing Exchange Traded Funds of 2005 No It’s Not Energy Related
San Francisco, CA (ContentDesk) January 2, 2006 -- The results of the highest performing ETFs in 2005 may surprise some people. The consensus of most popular opinion is that energy related funds performed best in 2005. This is not the case. Most of the profits this year came from funds invested in foreign equities.The fund performing the best was the iShares S&P 40 Latin America Index with a 55% gain, symbol ILF. The average volume traded in this ETF was around 186,000 shares.The next on the list weighing in with a 54.34% gain was the iShares MSCI South Korea Index.
The average volume traded in this fund was about 667,000 shares. The volume traded in this fund was brisk and it is one of the Asian funds to watch in 2006.The best performing Energy Sector fund came in fourth. It was the Merrill Lynch Market Oil service HOLDRs. This fund gained 51.35% for the year and trades an average of
4,000,000 shares. The other top performing funds were a mixture of regional funds from...
Hedge funds > The Best Performing Exchange Traded Funds of 2005 No It’s Not Energy Related
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