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Service: Advisory
Industry: Investment Management, Financial Services
Type: Regulatory update, White paper
Date: 10/18/2012

Challenges facing advisers to commodity pools

The final rules released by the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) include new, or amended, requirements for commodity pools. Further, Dodd Frank Act mandates to include “swaps” under the definition of a commodity pool. This presents additional challenges for commodity pools’ advisers. This white paper highlights business, technology, operational, and data challenges, which need to be addressed by those engaged in the commodities and futures businesses and the possible solutions for those challenges.

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The release of a series of final rules by the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) includes new, or amended, requirements that present challenges for advisers to commodity pools, a population which will increase significantly as a result of the Dodd Frank Act’s addition of “swaps” to the definition of a commodity pool.

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Challenges facing advisers to commodity pools

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