FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Through our relationship with a major banking clearing facility (“FCM”) headquartered in London England, our institutional and corporate clients have access to approximately 40 tradable currencies worldwide. Our clients routinely execute physical conversion for payroll or to hedge future currency exposure.

Due to issues regarding money laundering legislation, accounts are generally opened directly with our FCM. This process streamlines the ability of moving funds into your Fx account and back again after a transaction is completed.

Anyone who has ever wire transferred funds continues to wonder why, considering todays technology, the banking industry persists in hindering the speed of wiring funds. The whole process creates more anxiety with customers rather than providing solutions. Well that has thankfully ended. We have worked with our European banking partner to provide for a new method of rapid execution of money transfer. Your company can now qualify for the Electronic Transfer of Funds, (“EFT”) into any currency you desire with same day (round turn) settlement. All this regardless of who you bank with, anywhere in the world.

INDEX HEDGING
The second most common hedging strategy for equity and fixed income managers is the protection of a portfolio against market downturns.

To accomplish this effectively, portfolio managers routinely utilize an index hedge rather than the liquidation of a percentage of their portfolio. The benefits are obvious. Firstly such a hedge is much less expensive than clearing fees for stock liquidation and then subsequent re-purchase. Secondly, timing is critical and in the event the portfolio continues to rise, the fund manager continues to hold his position fully intact and protected by the hedge.

Genuine Trading Solutions is a full service CTA firm, and through our international clearing facility, (FCM) we are able to provide an index hedge on virtually any market world wide, including:

S&P TSX 60		FTSE 100 / 250		Dow Jones		S&P 100
S&P 500		NASDAQ 100		Nikkei 225		Russell 1000 / 2000
CRB Index		US Dollar		CAC 40		Hang Seng
Value Line		DAX

FIXED INCOME HEDGING
In addition to index hedging for equity portfolios, we offer a full assortment of exchange traded products for hedging interest rates in relation to fixed income portfolio’s. These include:

Cdn Bankers Acceptance		Cdn Gov’t Bonds		Euro Dollar
US T-Bills		US T-Bonds		US T-Notes
Japanese Gov’t Bonds		LIBOR		30 Day Fed Funds
Credit Default SWAPS		SWAPS		Fed Binary Options

BASE COMMODITY HEDGING FOR CORPORATIONS
If your corporation imports a product in one currency and sells it in another currency, then you may be experiencing currency risk. If you purchase a base product today i.e. steel or copper, but the finished product is not re-sold for some time into the future, then you are experiencing product risk also called basis risk.

Whether you are the owner of a small business or CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you may require the services of a CTA to manage and off-set the risk associated with daily market variances. Over the years, our clients have come to us for hedging Wheat, Corn, Livestock, Gold, Silver, Copper as well as Crude Oil and Natural Gas. The list is long and as varied as the business of our customers. We can be of help, regardless of the product you sell or the country you market to. We have worked with clients in almost every major country in the world.

GIVE UP AGREEMENTS
Give Up Agreements are commonly used instruments by equity and fixed income funds to ensure all outside fund managers process their trades through a single custodian or prime broker. This is especially important in derivatives trading when the “FCM” or Futures Clearing Merchant is separate and distinct from those used by equity traders. As your CTA, we are well versed in the use of Give Ups and will happily coordinate the set-up of such an agreement with your custodian or prime broker. We understand the importance of making your accounting process for the daily marked-to-market reporting of NAVPS as simple as possible.

FULL SERVICE CTA STRATEGIES
In conjunction with full consultation with you, we will assist in the calculation and undertake the execution of your hedging or speculation needs which will protect you against the adversities everyday economic conditions present. When you manage the risk associated to your equity, fixed income portfolio, or business, you are really controlling conditions your competitors cannot.

If you knew how to control commodity prices and economic volatility wouldn’t you have a distinct advantage over your competitors. We will give you the skills and the ability to control circumstances previously available to only the worlds major corporations and wealthiest individuals.

The largest institutions in the world for decades have long been hedging their risk associated with such financial instruments as Indices, Currency and Interest Rates. Toronto is a growing market and our decision to be based here opens the door for you to take advantage of our CTA services at a personal level. Now It is no longer necessary to contact a New York firm for this service.

If you are unsure if you or your company can benefit from these products, call us to obtain a more detailed understanding of how to manage your operational or market risk.