An economic derivative is a financial contract where payouts depend on future economic indicators. It helps manage risk and speculate on economic forecasts.

Derivatives are like aircraft: In the right hands, they are wonderful vehicles, but in the wrong hands, or incompetently handled, they are dangerous. As David Hoffman reported in last week’s issue, ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Derivative Path, a leading provider of cloud-based derivatives and market risk management solutions, today announced the launch of its Risk Dashboard, a next-generation risk ...

Discover how equity derivatives work, their uses in hedging and speculation, and see examples of these financial instruments like options and futures.

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Derivatives are a kind of ...

Fund executives are worried that the Securities and Exchange Commission will ban or severely limit how they use derivatives in their portfolios, a decision that they say would have negative ...

The primary real estate derivatives market in the UK might soon exceed an annual £1 billion ($1.75 billion) in value for the first time, possibly indicating the beginning of an explosion in property ...

Environmental, social and governance risk mitigation has become a mainstream feature of institutional investment, yet the integration of ESG has not been applied equally across portfolios. To date, ...

With investors turning to commodity-based investment vehicles in response to recent market turmoil, U.S. derivatives regulators issued an alert about the added risks of buying into these sorts of ...

Ottawa is proposing two measures in this year’s federal budget affecting the tax treatment of derivatives, sophisticated financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of an underlying ...