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S&P 500/Growth 
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S&P 500/Citigroup Growth futures provide a way to efficiently gain or manage exposure to companies of the S&P 500 Index categorized as “growth” companies. They also enable you to:

  • Manage the risk associated with growth-style equity investments
  • Protect the value of related investments during bear markets
  • Benefit from potentially lower trading costs compared to trading individual stocks or Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Accommodate a range of strategies, different market environments and varied objectives
  • Effectively replicate – together with our other equity products – all your global equity exposure on a single platform

Things to know:

  • The “growth” category applies to approximately half of the S&P 500 companies
  • Contracts trade solely electronically on the CME Globex platform,
    • Virtually around the clock, around the world
    • Complete price transparency and anonymity
  • CME Clearing matches and settles all trades and guarantees counterparty creditworthiness