New opportunities for portfolio managers

Investment opportunities for portfolio managers using RTS Index futures

• The trade on the rise / fall of the entire stock market, but not on a change of single stocks
• Opportunity of stock portfolios risks hedging
• A profitable alternative to ordinary stocks portfolio coping the structure of the RTS Index:
  • lower commission costs (no depositary fee)
  • free "leverage" (fees are charged only for opening and closing a position on the derivatives market, no fees – for maintaining an open position)
• Better efficiency of managing stock portfolios that do not copy the structure of RTS Index
• An opportunity to "short" (sale) simultaneously a whole portfolio, since futures buy and sale are symmetrical and equally simple operations (unlike "short sale" on the stock market)
• Trading RTS Index Volatility
• Making up synthetic futures on the second-tier stock index
• Building various arbitrage, speculative and hedging strategies via RTS Index futures and options, as well as futures and options on single Russian shares on the Derivatives Market