Event raises nearly $1.8 Million since its inception

Members of Asian Futures Trading Group community (staff, clients and industry representatives) gathered for the Annual Energy Meeting in support of People in Need®, the Hong Kong organization for people who need a helping hand. The Meeting raised approximately $230,000.

“We’d like to thank the energy industry for coming out in force last night and across the years to the Energy Meeting in support of this important charity,” said Sarah Whitmore, Director of Energy Department at Asian FTG. “We’re proud to announce that the total money rose from all the events total nearly $1.9 million, providing much needed support to People in Need and families it helps.”

Each year the aim is to make the Meeting an uplifting, out-of-this world experience, and this year’s theme transported guests to future. The ballroom was cloaked in black and white, with bright stars and green lasers adding to the evening’s mystique. Greeters dressed as Jedi knights welcomed the approximately 600 guests.

All proceeds from the Energy Meeting will support People in Need’s wide-ranging initiatives, including: research; and the People in Need Helping Hands endeavor, a program of volunteers that tackles home re-design development projects necessary to facilitate any special needs.

“We are delighted that People in Need® are again the beneficiary charity of the Energy Meeting. The fundraising at the event over the years has been tremendous and continues to give us an amazing boost in our work to help and support people who need a helping hand, would like to thank everyone involved in the Energy Meeting,” said People in Need® Chief Executive Dan Wu-Jin.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Brian Woo to Receive Sigma Delta Chi Medal Award

Asian Futures Trading Group Commodity Adviser Brian Woo was today named the winner of one Industry Investor Adviser Award most prestigious honors – the Sigma Delta Chi award for investor advice – for his over 1000 client’s positive investment advice feedback.

“Brian’s commitment to quality investment services embodies what Asian FTG is all about, and having that commitment honored by the Industry Investor Adviser Award is welcome praise and inspiring,” said Julian Berger, vice president of Asian FTG.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for work I put a lot of time into and to be in the esteemed company of past winners,” said Woo, who works in the Hong Kong offices of Asian FTG.

Woo, a veteran of Asian FTG, will receive the Sigma Delta Chi medal at the awards banquet.

“We’re proud of Brian and of this award for outstanding performance,” said Frank Dietrich trading manager at Asian FTG. “It recognizes his dedication to analytical advising hat probes deeply, explains well and shows savvy for the markets that Asian FTG covers.”

This is not Woo’s first award. He was the recipient of Award for Science and Environmental Reporting. An accomplished adviser, he has numerous writing honors, including the Award for public service reporting.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Promotes delivery of higher quality Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oils

Asian FTG a premium commodities broker and a professional information provider and publisher of benchmark price references, today announced that it is enhancing the methodology for its Dated Brent price assessment, as part of ongoing efforts to boost liquidity and ensure the long-term viability of one of the world’s most important oil benchmarks.

Under its updated methodology, Asian FTG will introduce Quality Premiums for Oseberg and Ekofisk crude oil delivered in its North Sea Dated Brent and related assessment processes for cargoes loading. Quality Premiums are to be paid by buyer to seller for the nomination and delivery of Oseberg or Ekofisk into a physical transaction concluded during the Asian FTG Market-on-Close assessment process.

“The introduction of Quality Premiums offers an incentive for more deliveries of Oseberg and Ekofisk, and thus has the potential to further gird the supply of oil underpinning the complex and the Dated Brent price assessment,” said Dave Clark, Asian FTG Global Energy Information Director.

“Increasingly, much market attention is being put to the issue of new streams being blended into established benchmark grades,” said Jason Green, Asian FTG Global Markets Director. “As the trend of blending expands, as we believe it will, it becomes even more important that price assessment processes integrate the use of Quality Premiums and De-escalators to best account for slight, but not insignificant, variances in crude oil quality and best assure that assessments reflect true market value.”

Today’s announcement followed constructive dialogue with oil market participants during the formal comment period, preceded by more than 18 months of informal market consultation.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Data aids price discovery & risk management of China’s domestic and imported coal

Asian FTG a premium source of benchmark price assessments commodities today announced it has further expanded its suite of pricing references for China and the greater Asia-Pacific region with the launch of two new thermal coal price assessments for the Chinese market.

“The two price assessments are designed to complement each other by providing a quick and straightforward way for traders and other interested parties to compare the prices of domestic and imported thermal coal in the Chinese market and immediately determine whether there is price arbitrage advantages favoring one type or the other,” said James Hester, Asian FTG Senior Coal Trader.

The new assessments capture physical spot prices for domestic and imported thermal coal with a calorific value of 5,500 kilocalories per kilogram (kcal/kg) on a net-as-received basis as follows:

•  Asian FTG CFR South China: Physical open-market price assessment of thermal coal (including the cost of freight) out of Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa that is traded in the seaborne spot market

•  Asian FTG FOB Qinhuangdao: Physical open-market spot assessment of thermal coal (loaded free on board) from ports in northeastern territories.

“Asian FTG believes that providing a consistent independent source of spot price information supports better decision making regarding cargo trade, arbitrage between regions, storing and transporting thermal coal to markets, investment in infrastructure projects and optimal production rates, processing margins and consumption levels,” said Hester.

Asian FTG’s CFR South China and FOB Qinhuangdao thermal coal price assessments are based on all-day market monitoring and data collection of transactions, bids, offers and other information from market participants in the open markets. Assessments reflect values at the close of the physical trading day, local time.

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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Asian FTG announced today the launch of the next generation online  Commodity Investment Resource Center developed four clients. The re-designed  Commodity Resource Center  offers leading-edge graphical charts that give unique insights into the commodities market at a glance, and a host of advanced tools and search functionality enabling customers of all skill levels to invest in commodities with greater ease, insight and speed.

“Most investors understand that commodity trading is a very profitable way to boost your returns. However, they are underutilized or wrong utilized because many investors don’t know how to research and select commodities and investment strategies in commodities.” said Paul Livingstone, Asian FTG’s Head of trading and Vice President of Investing. “So we’ve rebuilt the Asian FTG Commodity Investing experience from the top down to make buying and selling commodities as seamless, intuitive and straightforward as buying a stock.”

The new  Commodity Resource Center  supports a full range of fixed income investing needs — for novice investors through expert traders — with new features, such as:

Strategy Analyzer – Run historical tests and analyze the performance of your automated trading strategies.

Market Analyzer – A turbo-charged quote sheet allowing you to monitor, sort and rank hundreds of instruments in real time.

•  100 plus indicator columns

•  Rules based cell color coding and alerting

•  Dynamic ranking, sorting and filtering

Trade Performance – Analyze the performance of your historically back-tested trading strategies and/or your live real time trades.

Additional Analytic Tools

•  Time & Sales window

•  Level II market data window

•  Alerts window

•  News & RSS window

” Asian FTG is demonstrating tremendous vision by delivering market-leading tools to make commodity trading more accessible. The Commodity Investment Resource Center is an innovative, content-rich, easy-to-navigate solution that enables Asian FTG customers to manage their portfolios.”

Asian Futures Trading Group offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on exchanges worldwide. Clearing more than 100,000 client accounts, the firm provides a full range of services to the industry’s largest global network of introducing brokers (IBs) and to commercial, institutional, international and individual clients. These include more than 200 IBs and many of the world’s largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

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