Troika Dialog Asset Management has started using new instruments for hedging risks linked to mutual investment funds. On March 9, 2011, Dobrynya Nikitich1, the open-ended mutual investment fund of shares, created a position in RTS Exchanges’ index futures with settlement in June 2011, within the framework of a strategy for managing its portfolio, Troika Dialog.
The usage of derivatives for managing assets of mutual investment funds provides asset management firms with new trading and marketing opportunities, said Evgeny Serdyukov, director of the futures & options market at RTS. The strategies will ensure improved efficiency of portfolio management and gives a management company the possibility to broaden products range.
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