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| What Is MarketsWiki?MarketsWiki is an online open source knowledge base for current and historical information about the global exchange traded capital, derivatives, environmental and related OTC markets. MarketsWiki is powered by content contributions from paid readers of the John Lothian Newsletter, Environmental Markets Newsletter and Frontier Markets Newsletter and from a team of professional financial journalists, educators and consultants.
Event SpotlightUnderstanding Credit DerivativesWhen: Jan. 13-14, 2009 Who should attend: credit risk managers, treasury managers, credit analysts, fixed income managers, financial analysts and traders. Compelling topics include:
MFA's Network 2009When: Feb. 8-10, 2009 Network 2009 attendees include investment, hedge fund and fund of funds managers; prime, securities and futures brokers; pension fund managers; and service providers who support the industry. Your full conference registration includes entrance to the keynote speakers, general sessions, and entrance into the exhibit hall, breaks, breakfasts, luncheons, and evening receptions. Sponsorship opportunities and exhibit booth space are also available. MFA characterizes itself as the global voice of the alternative investment industry. Its members are professionals in hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures funds, as well as industry service providers. Established in 1991, MFA is the primary source of information for policy makers and the media and the leading advocate for sound business practices and industry growth. MFA members include the vast majority of the largest hedge fund groups in the world who manage a substantial portion of the approximately $2 trillion invested in absolute return strategies. MFA is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an office in New York. Sponsorship opportunities and exhibit booth space are also available.
Job Providers and HuntersLooking for work? Looking to hire someone? MarketsWiki serves both sides of that equation. If you are a manager with a job opening to fill, you can post the details for the opening on our Job Postings page. Also, we just created (in November) a new feature so that people can identify themselves on their biography pages as looking for work. Take a look at the Job Seekers category to see who's hunting -- you might find the right person just by looking here! If you're one of those people looking for work, and if you have a biography page here in MarketsWiki, tag yourself as being in the job market! You can do it yourself if you have wiki editing access; take a look at our handy help guide: Using the Job Seeker Template. If you don't have a page yet, or don't want to edit the page yourself, just get in touch and we'll help you get set up! There's no cost to either employer or job hunter; our goal is simply to help the community stay connected.
Featured ArticleISE Launches Options Trading on the NASDAQ Q-50 Index "We are excited to partner with NASDAQ to provide investors with the ability to trade options on a diverse basket of the fastest growing non-financial companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market," said Kris Monaco, director of new product development at ISE. "This new product will allow ISE's customers to trade their views on some of the most closely watched securities listed on NASDAQ's marketplace." "Our partnership with ISE will give investors who use the NASDAQ Q-50 Index in their portfolios the additional flexibility of incorporating options into their trading strategies," said John Jacobs, executive vice president, NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group. "We are very pleased to work with ISE to expand the reach of our proprietary index products." The NASDAQ Q-50 Index is a market-capitalization weighted, price return index that commenced calculation on Oct. 10, 2007 with a base value of 150.00. It does not contain securities of financial companies including banking and investment companies, as these are ineligible for NASDAQ-100 Index inclusion. MarketsWiki Spotlight(Statistics snapshot as of December 29, 2008. Average visitor statistics are based on site traffic in the last month.)
NewslettersJohn J. Lothian & Company, Inc. launched Frontier Markets Newsletter (FMN), edited by Rob Luke on September 2, 2008. This newsletter focuses on trading and investment related topics from emerging market countries, but will also include some coverage Brazil, Russia, India and China. The theme for the newsletter is Invest in the World. If you are interested in subscribing, email to Rob Luke. FMN will be offered for free until January 1, 2009 and will thereafter be priced at $250 per year. A subscription to FMN includes a subscription to the John Lothian Newsletter. The John Lothian Newsletter is a daily email intelligence briefing edited by John J. Lothian dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of the futures and securities industries, and the capital and derivatives markets, through the dissemination of information and commentary. The John Lothian Newsletter was launched during the summer or 2000 and was offered for free for its first 3 years. In 2003, the newsletter switched to a voluntary pay format. Readers are asked to pay for the newsletter if they find it valuable. An annual subscription for the John Lothian Newsletter in 2008 is $115. Enterprise rates are available for organizations with 5 or more readers. Environmental Markets Newsletter is a daily email intelligence briefing editd by Jim Kharouf that includes news, notices, press releases and price data about environmentally-based markets. Environmental Markets Newsletter and the John Lothian Newsletter are designed to keep readers informed in the fast growing environmental market space and the futures and securities industries respectively. Both aggregate public and restricted access information available over Internet in an easy to use, reader friendly format. Utilizing a headline, lead paragraph and hyperlink format, readers can quickly assess the stories they want to read more on and those they want to glance over. Environmental Markets was launched in June 2006 by John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. and is offered on a subscription basis for $150 per year. New readers are welcome to receive Environmental Markets FREE for one month. Enterprise rates are available to organizations with 10 or more subscribers. Environmental Markets subscribers receive 2 daily emails, one first thing in the morning in the U.S. that covers the environmental market space. The second email, the PM edition of Environmental Markets, is a full copy of the John Lothian Newsletter. The John Lothian Newsletter also includes an Environmental Trading section. | HeadlinesObama's SEC Pick Is No Joe Kennedy CBOE to end member control this year: Brodsky Satyam Chief Admits Huge Accounting Fraud Hedge Funds Try To Cope Cracks appearing in foreign exchange market claims report EU Threatens Credit-Swap Law as Clearing Deal Falters OCC Formalizes Agreement With Quadriserv To Launch Centralized Securities Lending Marketplace Nasdaq sees major return from derivatives clearing Can New Regulation Stop Another Madoff? RGGI States to Develop Low Carbon Fuel Standard Upcoming EventsHave an event you'd like to list? Put a new section in the Upcoming Events page and we'll put it here on the front page too! Understanding Credit Derivatives Commodity and Ingredient Hedging “Margin Management for Optimal Crop Returns” Seminar NFA Web Seminar To Help CPOs and CTAs File Disclosure Documents Electronically Financial Risk Blueprints for Hedgers Citi Financials 2009 Financial Services Conference MFA's Network 2009 Trading Strategies & Tactics for Speculators Introduction to Exchange-Traded Futures & Options Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp Understanding Credit Derivatives Introduction to Exchange-Traded Futures & Options 25th Annual CBOE Risk Management Conference 34th Annual FIA International Futures Industry Conference 18th Annual FIA Futures Services Division OpTech Conference Is Algo Trading Within Your Grasp? 31st Annual FIA Conference on the Regulation of Futures, Derivatives and OTC Products India Summit 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Sponsorship, Subscriptions, EditingMarketsWiki is a companion to the John Lothian Newsletter (JLN), Jim Kharouf's Environmental Markets Newsletter (EMN) and the Rob Luke edited Frontier Markets Newsletter (FMN). JLN, EMN and FMN are daily email overviews of the news, opinions and happenings in the financial markets, environmental markets and emerging markets. To preserve the integrity of the information here, editing and contribution is limited to paid subscribers of either newsletter (though anyone can read the contents on this site). The subscriptions help pay for our team of professional journalists and technical support consultants, and the limited access ensures that we're not fending off and repairing vandalism and disinformation in our articles. We are actively seeking sponsors and content contributors to keep this project growing rapidly! If you'd like information about sponsoring the project, please contact us at info@johnlothian.com for details. If you'd like to subscribe to the newsletters, either to become a contributor or simply to stay informed in the rapidly changing financial world, visit our signup page. And finally, if you're already a paid newsletter subscriber and want access to the wiki, send an email request to Jon Matte, and he'll get you set up with a user id and a startup guide.
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