The Industrial Materials Team
A member of NYMEX and a Ring-dealing member of the London Metal Exchange, MF Global offers its customers a professional package in price risk management. The 50-person Industrial Materials Team's reputation is based on superior performance in the core functions of market-making, order execution, trade clearing, and contract administration. MF Global's customers include the principal producers, processors, consumers, and dealers of the traded metals in all geographical regions. In addition, a significant portion of MF Global’s extensive client portfolio consists of professional investors such as commodity trading advisors and hedge fund managers. The LME plastics contracts have seen further expansion in the team's client portfolio.
Depth of Expertise
The Industrial Materials Team's experience in the futures markets spans three decades. Expertise runs deep, with the Team's members having prior experience in strategic planning, research, and marketing for Fortune 500 companies, LME ring dealing and market making, precious and base metals brokerage, institutional managed futures trading, and in academia.
Market Outlooks and Strategy Analysis
Market research at MF Global is structured to meet a wide variety of customer needs. Services in this area range from the intra-day analysis of the most recent fundamental and technical developments affecting pricing to longer-term strategic research of supply, demand, and inventory trends. Along with its price forecasting capability, the Team undertakes analytical research on hedging and trading strategies. The Team also publishes monographs on topics of broad interest to its customers, such as the impact of changing accounting standards, developments in risk management, and current hedge activities and strategic thought in the various sectors of the market.
Full Service Commodity Advisor
Consulting programs vary from simple "overnight" hedge proposals containing one or more strategies given current market fundamentals, technicals, and price exposures to custom-designed studies and recommendations based on a customer's specific commercial situation and management goals.