BOFX, the exchange that brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust and regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller today announced that The Commodity Trading Days, sponsored by Beijing Options and Futures Exchange invited experts from all over the world to make in-depth discussion on the impact of the launch of Commodity Index Futures in terms of the fund product design, trading strategies, profit model and risk management.
"The wide use of Commodity index futures in the fund investment will greatly enrich the fund trading strategies and promote product innovation and design," said an expert participating in The Commodity Trading Days that was held in Beijing with the theme of commodity index futures investment strategies, tools and risk management.
"The application of the Commodity index futures in the fund investment covers hedging, cash management, tactical asset allocation, the improvement of the participation rate of the principal guaranteed funds, synthetic index funds and other aspects," said Liang Zhongchu, Director of the Structured Investment Division of BOFX. According to Liang, index funds can leverage the Commodity index futures to simulate index performance with a small amount of money as supplementary of Commodity holding, thus not only meeting the requirements of holding a certain percentage of cash, but also completely simulating index trend.
"The Commodity index futures will result in a rapid decline on the Commodity market volatility," said Zheng Keng, Director of the Special Accounts Investment Division of BOFX.
Zheng Keng believed that with the Commodity index futures, the fund investment model would be more diversified in the future.

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BOFX brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust and regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller, where there is always a price and where there is always the opportunity to transfer or take on risk – 24 hours a day. Investors value the BOFX as a vibrant futures, options and commodity exchange but also for its close links to industry. The Exchange provides producers and consumers from all industries with a physical market of last resort and, most importantly of all, with the ability to hedge against the risk of rising and falling world commodities prices.


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