Fed Stimulus: Help or Harm?

Larry McDonald, Senior Director at Newedge, appears on CNBC's Closing Bell to debate whether the Fed's actions are doing more harm than good for the economy.

OTC Clearing Onboarding webinar

Newedge partnered with the CME Group to host a webinar on the Fast-track to OTC Clearing Onboarding for Category 2 Entities in advance of the June 10 deadline. 

Leading the call were John Wilson, Global Head of OTC Clearing at Newedge and Jack Callahan, Executive Director OTC Products at CME Group that discussed:

  • minimum documentation requirements
  • data required to complete the documentation
  • deadlines for documentation submission prior to the June 10 deadline
  • lessons learned from the Category 1 onboarding experience
  • futures market alternatives

Call playback and presentation
If you missed the call, you can listen to it in full, along with reviewing the associated presentation

Newedge Indices

Daily Indices

Index
Date
Return
MTD
YTD
Details
Newedge CTA Index
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The Newedge CTA Index is equal-weighted and reconstituted annually and has become recognized as the key managed futures performance benchmark. The index calculates the net daily rate of return for a pool of CTAs selected from the largest managers open to new investment.

Bloomberg: NEIXCTA Index

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Newedge Trend Index
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The Newedge Trend Index is equal-weighted and reconstituted annually. The index calculates the net daily rate of return for a pool of trend following based hedge fund managers.

Bloomberg: NEIXCTAT Index

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Newedge Trend Indicator
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The Newedge Trend Indicator is a market based performance indicator designed to have a high correlation to the returns of trend following strategies.

Bloomberg: NEIXTRND Index

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Newedge Short Term Traders Index
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The Newedge Short-Term Traders Index is designed to track the daily performance of a portfolio of CTAs and Global Macro managers executing diversified trading strategies with a less than 10-day average holding period.

Bloomberg: NEIXSTTI

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Monthly Indices

Index
Date
Return
YTD
Details
  
Newedge Macro Trading Index
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Newedge Macro Trading Index (Quantitative)
          
Newedge Macro Trading Index (Discretionary)
          

The Newedge Macro Trading Index is a broad based performance measure for constituents that trade Global Macro strategies. These managers may typically employ top-down fundamental research to forecast the effect of global macroeconomic and political events on the valuation of financial instruments and are frequently focused on a diversified basket of instruments.

In order to be eligible for inclusion as a constituent program, individual programs must predominately trade a relevant Global Macro strategy, provide monthly performance data, and have AUM greater than USD 30 million.

Bloomberg: NEIXMTI Index

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Newedge Macro Trading Index (Quantitative)
A sub-index of the Newedge Macro Trading Index covering the quantitative and GTAA strategies.

Downloads: Historical

Newedge Macro Trading Index (Discretionary)
A sub-index of the Newedge Macro Trading Index covering the discretionary strategies.

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Newedge Commodity Trading Index
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Newedge Commodity Trading Index (Trading)
          
Newedge Commodity Trading Index (Equity)
          

The Newedge Commodity Trading Index is a broad based performance measure for constituents that trade commodity-related strategies. Commodity funds utilize a variety of investment strategies to profit from price moves in commodity markets. In order to be eligible for inclusion as a constituent program, individual programs must predominately trade a relevant Commodity strategy, provide monthly performance data, and have AUM greater than USD 30 million.

Bloomberg: NEIXCTI Index

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Newedge Commodity Trading Index (Trading)

A sub-index of the Newedge Commodity Trading Index covering trading orientated strategies, typically involving the trading of physical commodity products and/or of commodity derivative instruments in either directional or relative value strategies.

Downloads: Historical

Newedge Commodity Trading Index (Equity)

A sub-index of the Newedge Commodity Trading Index covering long/short equity strategies focused on commodity related stocks.

Downloads: Historical

Newedge Volatility Trading Index
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The Newedge Volatility Trading Index was the first ever performance measure for volatility trading within the Alternative Investment industry. Designed to increase awareness of volatility trading as a hedge fund strategy, and as a benchmark index for the strategy, the Newedge Volatility Trading Index is an equally weighed, non-investable index of funds that trades volatility as an asset class.

Bloomberg: NEIXVTI Index

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