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BNP Paribas' Commodity Derivatives division has platforms in London, New York, Houston, Tokyo and Singapore and employs over 170 people globally. The bank has been active in the commodity derivatives space for over 20 years and draws on its leadership in commodity financing and excellence in derivatives to provide corporate and investor clients with innovative solutions. The division comprises a future brokerage business and an OTC business. BNP Paribas has, over the past couple of years, developped its commodity investor business in order to facilitate the access to commodities from a wide range of investors including pension funds, insurance companies, wealth and asset managers. Its range of proprietary products starts from quantitative based strategies (e.g. DCI® BNP Paribas Enhanced Indices, Alpha Curve, Oscillator) to actively managed (e.g. BNP Paribas COMAC). Investors can also invest in BNP Paribas' structured funds or structured products directly linked to commodities or to third party indices (e.g RICI®).
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Focused on growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for nearly 45 years, Jefferies is a global, full service investment banking and institutional securities firm operating in more than 25 offices in six countries spanning three continents. We provide world-class investment banking, sales & trading, research and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. We are industry experts, specializing in aerospace & defense, consumer & retail, energy, financial & business services, gaming & leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime & oil service, media & communications and technology, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.
  
EasyETF, off the beaten track Trakers
The EasyETF range is a unique offer, benefiting from the combined expertise of AXA Investment Managers and BNP Paribas in fund management, market-making, as well as distribution. It aims at giving investors access to an ever growing variety of asset classes (equity, bonds, real estate commodities, credit, Shariah equities etc.) and diverse economic sectors (Bank, Health, Media…) in order to allow them to fine-tune performing asset allocation strategies.
The EasyETF product range now includes 41* trackers, of which 39 are listed on Euronext Paris, 10 on the Deutsche Börse, 2 on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX) and 7 on Borsa Italiana for a total of € 4.7** billion in assets under management. The first sectorial range in the Eurozone, it currently includes :
- 9 equity trackers linked to the largest Global and European indices,
- 7 trackers on thematic indices : socially responsible investment through the ASPI Eurozone index, environment, luxury, agribusiness, Shariah compliant investment. infrasructure
- 10 sector trackers;
- 3 trackers on listed real estate on the Eurozone, Europe and Global
- 2 money market trackers on the Eurozone and the USA
- 3 iBoxx sovereign bond trackers on the Eurozone.
- 2 trackers on credit derivatives on iTraxx® indices.
- 5 commodity trackers
(*) All data as at 30 June 2008
(**) All data as at 30 May 2008
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CME Group is an entity formed by the merger of CME and CBOT. We bring more than 250 years of expertise to the global marketplace, and are the largest and most diverse exchange in the world for trading futures and options. We offer the widest range of benchmark products available on any exchange that cover all major asset classes, such as interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, commodities, energy, and alternative investments.
CME Clearing matches and settles trades and guarantees the creditworthiness of every transaction that takes place.
CME Group is traded on NYSE and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
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Brady plc is a leading provider of trading and risk management software for global commodity markets. On a single platform Brady combines fully integrated and complete solutions supporting the entire commodity trading operation, from trade capture of financial and physical trading, through risk management, handling of physical operations, back office financials and treasury settlement. Brady has more than 20 years of expertise in the commodity markets and more than 800 users worldwide, including some of the largest financial institutions and mining corporations that depend on Brady's software solutions to deliver vital business transactions across their global operations.
Dow Jones Indexes, a unit of Dow Jones & Company, is a leading provider of market indexes, which it licenses for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes offers more than 130,000 equity indexes and provides a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones Indexes is co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, and together with Wilshire Associates, provides the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Index family.
NAVITA is a leading provider of technology solutions to the energy and commodity trading community. NAVITA's POMAX(tm) suite delivers full cross-commodity market analysis, trading, risk management, logistics and settlement solutions for both physical and financial market participants and central marketplaces. Supported commodity classes include: power, gas, freight, carbon, coal, metals, oil, and softs.
More than 100 installations worldwide rely on NAVITA's POMAX(tm) product in their daily trading operations. POMAX(tm) customers include Clarksons, EdF Trading, E.ON, IMAREX, IMC Shipping, International Power, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, Norsk Hydro, Nuon, Statkraft, UBS Ltd., WA-IMO, Westpac, and Xstrata Nickel.
NAVITA has its head office in Norway and also has regional offices in London, Edinburgh, Stockholm, Toronto and Los Angeles.
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Operating globally and headquartered in Paris, orbeo is a pioneering joint-venture combining industrial and financial expertise in the realm of carbon.
orbeo has developed a huge expertise and portfolio:
- from project to market, orbeo covers the whole carbon value chain
- from Asia to America, orbeo, through its dedicated teams, is present worldwide
- from institutional to industrial, orbeo is able to meet the needs of any kind of customer
The trading and marketing skills combined with the exceptional portfolio of projects, and the geographical growth of the company (Japan, North America, Australia, on top of the European historical presence) allowed orbeo to be recognized, in less than 18 months, as a leading trader of CO2 products.
orbeo is uniquely placed to offer comprehensive solutions to its clients for their GHG exposure management. It has developed a strong expertise in the main emerging carbon markets (EU ETS, UK ETS, Chicago CCX, Kyoto International Emission Trading). It covers all the carbon products, offers the widest range of services available and is able to structure complex, cross-commodities transactions, also using sophisticated financial instruments when required.
Standard & Poor's has been on the forefront of exchange-traded fund (ETF) development since the launch of the S&P 500 SPDR in 1993, the S&P MidCap SPDR in 1995, the Select Sector SPDRs in 1998, and 20 other S&P index linked ETFs that are part of the iShares series. Canada, one of the world's oldest and largest ETF markets, has 10 S&P index-linked ETFs. An ETF on the S&P/TOPIX 150 trades in the U.S., on the S&P/ASX 50 and S&P/ASX 200 in Australia, and on the S&P Europe 350 and S&P Euro in Europe. Other global initiatives for ETFs are underway.
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Sophis has more than 15 years of experience in supplying portfolio and risk management technologies to the world’s leading financial institutions. Sophis designs flexible, open and scalable solutions that support fully automated processing of transactions across all asset classes. Sophis’ technologies are developed by a highly-qualified R&D department, including a dedicated quant team, to rapidly meet the changing needs of a demanding client base. From nine locations worldwide, Sophis serves more than 100 market-leading institutions, including investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds.
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Gresham Investment Management LLC specializes in the design and management of commodity investment solutions for institutional investors.
Gresham's Tangible Asset Program (TAP) celebrated its 21-year anniversary in January 2007 with better historical risk-adjusted performance than both the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index ("GSCI") and Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index
("DJ-AIGCI") benchmarks. Gresham also provides actively managed GSCI and DJ-AIGCI programs designed to significantly outperform the benchmark indexes.
Gresham Investment Management LLC is registered as an Investment Adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission and as a Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Gresham currently manages and/or sub-advises in excess of US$6 Billion in commodity investments.
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James Mound Trading Group, LLC, "JMTG", is a full service commodity futures and options brokerage specializing in risk management strategies utilizing option and option spreading techniques. James Mound, President of JMTG, works directly with clients to educate and advise them on trade design, fundamental and technical analysis and portfolio design. Mr. Mound provides analysis to institutional and hedge fund clients as well as high net worth retail customers.
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Kingsman SA advises many of the world’s sugar and Biofuels producers and industrial users, as well as banks, trade houses, oil companies, private equity and hedge funds. The company’s services include price reporting, market analysis, consultancy and physical brokerage services. Our client database is made up of over 220 market leaders and key players worldwide, many of them Fortune 500 companies.
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PIMCO is one of the largest specialty fixed income managers in the world, with more than $720.6 billion in assets under management and 936 employees in offices in Newport Beach, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Munich, Hong Kong, and Toronto.
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