Conversations with the Buy-Side: Futures & ETFs

  • 10 Aug 2017
  • By CME Group

Conversations With the Buy-Side: Futures and ETFs, commissioned by CME Group and produced by Aite Group, studies the selection process and perceived costs and benefits of replicating the S&P 500 returns via equity index futures versus exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from a practitioner’s point of view. Interviews were held with buy-side portfolio managers and traders to seek their perspectives on the day-to-day influences into their decisions to trade futures and ETFs.

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