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S&P Dow Jones Indices Q&A: Navigating The Evolving Derivatives Market, Trends, Innovation, And The Rise Of Index-Based Solutions
Feb 10, 2025
The derivatives market is evolving rapidly, driven by liquidity shifts and product innovation. As investors adapt, new opportunities are emerging from index-based solutions in alternative asset classes to the growing interplay between exchange-traded and over-the-counter markets.
Continue readingPremialab: Quantitative Investment Strategies And Hedge Funds, A Comparative Analysis
May 9, 2024
In recent years, quantitative investment strategies have surged in popularity, offering a solution to the shortcomings associated with hedge funds.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange Introduces New Auction Functionality For Canadian Options Trade
May 1, 2024
Over the last few years, the Montréal Exchange team has worked with market participants to understand future trends and with Canadian regulators on product innovation. We have made strategic investments to facilitate more sustained liquidity in the Canadian-listed derivatives market, including developing new trading functionalities, extending trading hours for a global investor base, launching new
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: How Canadian Derivatives Are Adapting And Innovating Amid Global Economic Shifts
Dec 12, 2023
This past year has been challenging for global capital markets due to economic volatility, geopolitical uncertainties and persistent inflationary pressures that made investors pause and reflect.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: The Emergence Of Cryptocurrency Futures Trading In Canada
Nov 2, 2023
Over the past decade, Bitcoin has seen an impressive surge in interest. Initially, its decentralized nature, security weaknesses, uncertain regulatory landscape and pronounced volatility made it a contentious investment for many institutional investors. While the regulatory approach to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remains cautious, investor demand for digital assets with built-in regulatory safeguards continues to
Continue readingAmid Growing Concern With OTC Trading, Nasdaq Introduces Custom Basket Forwards To Democratize Equity Swaps Investing
Oct 10, 2023
Nasdaq’s recently announced Custom Basket Forwards product enables investors to create a cash-settled forward contract on a customized equity basket, with the benefits of central counterparty clearing and trading on a regulated market.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: Taking The Long View With Canadian Index Futures
May 2, 2023
In recent years, the Canadian derivatives market has experienced substantial growth, with index futures trading being a significant contributor to this story. The result is an improvement in market liquidity, with market makers providing tighter bid-ask spreads and deeper order books. As more global investors trade Canadian derivatives, it has further bolstered the market’s depth and resilience.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: Maintaining Momentum In Canadian Equity Options Trading
Dec 14, 2022
The equity derivatives markets in 2022 presented a very different backdrop than the previous year. The two years of the pandemic were a period of low interest rates and average volatility. The year started with resilient growth, but the trend reversed after the first quarter with high inflation and hawkish monetary policies.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: The Rise Of Retail Investing In Canadian Derivatives
Sep 27, 2022
The marketplace dynamic is changing with the emergence of a new class of individual investors with distinctive behaviors, motivations and financial objectives as well as varying levels of risk tolerance. While the headlines in recent years have focused on meme stocks, retail investors are trading derivatives, particularly in options.
Continue readingMontréal Exchange: Long Canadian Futures For ‘Outperformance’ Amid Volatility
May 16, 2022
As central banks undergo a policy shift that supports quantitative tightening, investors need to be more nimble than ever, adjusting their strategies for generating alpha and achieving portfolio objectives.
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