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CME Institute LIVE: Financial Futures and the Institutional Trader’s Toolbox

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Partner Content from CME Group – Today’s European money managers must be on the lookout for new ways to generate alpha in low-return environments, while nimbly navigating hairpin market turns from a 24-hour world news cycle. Uncleared Margin Rules have many institutions looking for ways to negate higher costs, such as switching to listed FX options. Portfolio managers must manage a slew of risks and new technologies while seeking greater cost efficiencies in ever-more-regulated, capital-constrained markets. To be successful requires a deep and comprehensive toolbox of the right tools, innovative strategies and a forward-thinking mind ready to learn.

This workshop provides a deep dive into how you can achieve just that using CME Group’s benchmark interest rate, equity index and FX derivatives products. Discover new ways to reduce existing and new margin requirements from Uncleared Margin Rules while freeing up credit lines, increasing cost efficiencies and maximizing your risk/return.

Who should attend?

Portfolio managers, research, trading and client facing professionals from pensions, asset management, and insurance firms as well as sell-side professionals from banks, broker-dealers and futures brokerage firms.

What you’ll learn

The CME Institute Live event will provide you with practical applications of exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) as effective trading and risk management tools. You also will learn how to analyze the price of futures versus cash markets, and how to evaluate ETDs as an effective tool for your portfolio.

Agenda

Day 1 │ Interest Rate Workshop

9:00 – 9:30

Welcome

  • Standardized futures vs. OTC
  • Exchange-traded derivatives & clearing benefits
  • CCP vs. bilateral counterparty risk

9:30 – 10:30

US Treasury Futures Foundations

  • Delivery process
  • Pricing mechanics
  • Basis, carry-repo, net basis
  • Cheapest to deliver (CTD), measuring risk

11:00 – 12:30

US Treasury Futures Applications

  • Basis trading
  • Invoice spreads
  • Duration adjustments
  • Yield curve
  • Option overlay

12:30 – 13:30

Break, lunch provided

13:30 – 14:30

STIRs Basics

  • Contracts, design & specs
  • Fed Funds (FF) & FedWatch
  • Convexity bias
  • Eurodollar (ED) Packs, Bundles, and Strips
  • SOFR-SONIA

14:30 – 15:00

Break

15:00 – 16:30

STIRs Applications

  • Hedging rate exposure & creating synthetic investments
  • Pricing/hedging interest rate swaps
  • Calendar spreads & butterflies
  • Inter-commodity spreads: FF-ED & Term TED spreads
  • Eurodollar options

Day 2 │ FX & Equity Index Workshop

9:00 – 9:30

Welcome

  • Financial futures, incl. exchange-traded vs. OTC
  • Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) implications and margin
  • CCP vs. bilateral counterparty risk

9:30 – 11:15

FX Futures

  • Size and scope of FX
  • Quote conventions, futures pricing, contract mechanics
  • Currency overlays
  • FX as a non-correlated asset class
  • Basis: CME FX Link
  • FX options
  • Uncleared Margin Rule (UMR) considerations

11:15 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:30

Equity Index 1.0

  • Indexing/benchmarks
  • Pricing mechanics
  • Carry, dividend income
  • CAPM review, beta, alpha
  • Beta replication, beta adjustment

12:30 – 13:30

Break, lunch provided

13:30 – 15:00

Equity Index 2.0

  • Cash equitization
  • Portable alpha
  • Index spreads
  • Select Sectors, sector rotation

15:00 – 15:15

Break

15:15 – 16:45

Equity Index 3.0

  • Basis Trade at Index Close (BTIC)
  • Trade at Cash Open (TACO)
  • Total Return & Dividend futures
  • Futures versus ETFs
  • Options for price risk

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Partner Content from CME Group
Partner Content from CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. Through its exchanges, CME Group offers the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. CME Group provides electronic trading globally on its CME Globex platform. The company also offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives through its clearinghouse, CME Clearing. CME Group's products and services ensure that businesses around the world can effectively manage risk and achieve growth.

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