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Panel Summary-Top 5 Questions
Michael Coglianese had the pleasure of moderating a Panel of experts at the NIBA Conference. Mike was impressed by the answers as well as the insight of the questions from the audience. Here are some of the questions summarized below: Why should IRAs be important to the Business of an Introducing Broker? First, the managed futures industry is important to the alternative investment space, giving individual investors another avenue to diversity and protect their portfolio. There are $7.3 Trillion in IRA assets as of 2014. IRAs are investment accounts that allow people particular tax benefits. Individuals need options to....
Symposium on “How Should We Measure Futures Investment Performance?”
Stock and bond investments have a number of commonly accepted performance benchmarks, such as the S&P 500 and the BarCap indexes. But with futures-related investments – particularly actively managed ones – evaluating performance can be challenging. Join us for an interesting and informative session that examines these issues from different points of view, with presentations by four recognized industry experts: Hilary Till, Solich Scholar, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, University of Colorado-Denver and Principal, Premia Capital Management LLC Galen Burghardt, Director of Research, COEX Partners Inc. Mark Shore, President and Chief Investment Officer, Shore Capital Management LLC Jerry Nolan, Director....
Ask the NFA–Revision to August
Revised Answer to Question 1 of the August 2015 Ask the NFA Article: Selecting and Recommending CTAs– A Recommending CTAs- A Recommending CTA is one who recommends various trading advisors to clients (e.g. individuals, other CTAs or CPOs) but does not have any other authority regarding these trading CTAs. A Recommending CTA is required to be registered and an NFA Member since the CTA is providing commodity trading advice based on, or tailored to, particular clients. The Recommending CTA is not required to provide its own disclosure document to clients and as such is not required to provide past....
Housekeeping, Reminders and Updates–Sept 2015
NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION Effective Date of New Requirements for Forex Dealer Members (“FDMs”) The NFA announced the effective date of the new capital and compliance requirements for FDMs after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) approved the NFA’s amendments to NFA Financial Requirements Section 11, NFA Financial Requirements Section 12 and NFA Compliance Rule 2-36. The CFTC’s approval of changes to Rule 2-36 also included the interpretive notice titled NFA Compliance Rule 2-36: Risk Management Program for Forex Dealer Members. As of January 4, 2016, FDMs must comply with the new financial and compliance requirements. NFA Financial Requirements Section 11....
6th Edition of The Complete IB Handbook is now available
6th Edition, The Complete IB Handbook by Melinda Schramm The 6th Edition of The Complete IB Handbook is now available for download HERE. The download is free compliments of the CME Group. I have been writing this guidebook for the Introducing Broker community since 1999. Many things have changed since then — few FCMs, more cybersecurity worries – and I’ve got a lot more wrinkles! But many things have stayed the same — ag-markets are still the most often traded by IB customers, there are still more GIBs registered with the NFA than IIBs, and IBs still list over-regulation as....
El Nino Panel Summary
El Nino Made Its Mark In 2015 When the U.S. 2015 crop year is analyzed in years to come–and it will be–there is little doubt in my mind that one of the first phrases to identify this season will be something along the lines of “It was really an El Nino year”. That may seem like a trivial point–after all, Pacific Ocean temperature patterns catalogued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and analyzed by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) show that El Nino warmth (above normal equator region temperatures) went into effect in the February-March-April period, and have....
Chicago Conference Wrap Up
Wow – that was great! by the 2015 September Conference Committee Almost 200 NIBA members attended an education/information/networking packed-day on September 24 at the NIBA Annual Meeting in Chicago. We’ve received rave reviews for the presenters and the demo room tables from all the attendees. We want to thank all our speakers and sponsors for their support and for making this event easy to plan and implement. We particularly want to thank CME Group for their primary sponsorship and box lunches, and Blu Putnam for the luncheon speech. Over the next few weeks, articles written by the conference speakers and....
Ownership and Control Reporting (“OCR”)
The reporting deadline under the CFTC’s Ownership and Control Reporting (“OCR”) rules is September 30, 2015. Although these rules became effective in February 2015, the CFTC granted firms an extension which until September 30 (six months) to collect and report the additional information information. What to Know In November 2013, the CFTC finalized new rules for Ownership and Control Reporting (“OCR”) which significantly expand the large trader reporting requirements for U.S. FCMs and their clients under CFTC Regulation Part 17 CFR 17.01(a), 17.01(b) and 20.5 (1). What this means for customers is that your FCM is now required to....
The Best Long Term Source for Qualified Leads
Highlights and takeaways from the CopyBlogger Authority Rainmaker 2015 conference in Denver, CO. It was a useful conference focused on the full lifecycle of content marketing. I’d like to share a few takeaways with you. Focus on Creating Your Own Audience A key theme was building an owned audience. Too often, marketers rely on other platforms for audience — whether it’s a trade publication, an industry site, or a social media platform. We refer to the audiences on these platforms as “rented.” Relying on a rented audience is like building a house on rented land. Eventually, you’re going to lose the house. The....