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