Arbitrage
Sunday 24 August 2025
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Pedagogy New milestones achieved in Eurex's futures on French government bonds
Eurex Exchange has recently set several new records in its Euro-OAT Futures. In August 2012, open interest exceeded for the first time the 100,000 threshold with 104,869 contracts. Trading volume in July also set a new record, both in average daily volume with about 19,600 contracts and in total with 431,000 contracts. Total volume since launch is over 1.5 million contracts.
Strategy The main trading recommendations of Goldman Sachs for 2012
The American bank's suggests the following strategies as its flagship trading recommendations in 2012: Short on the German bund with an expected 2.8% 10 year return and long EUR / CHF with 1.35 as target…
Interview Olivier Davanne and Thierry Pujol : « Our investment process is carried out along with systematic evaluations of risk premiums !»
According to the two co managers of Groupama Risk Premium, the high price of the markets and the systematic evaluation of risk premiums play an essential role in their investment decisions. This is a unique approach in France.
Strategy Systematic managers call into question the status of core European sovereign debt as a risk-free asset
Global Macro managers explicitly follow defensive strategies: short exposure to equities (around -20%) and long exposure to the US sovereign debt. On their side, CTAs managers are more aggressive...
Opinion On debt watch: why China can't save the world
As China faces up to its debt problems investors should be poised for turbulence and opportunity, writes Robin Parbrook, Head of Asia (ex Japan) Equities.