Recently, the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) introduced gold futures trading in China. This paper is the first to study the SHFE gold futures, and to evaluate the futures hedging effectiveness since the introduction. The results show that hedging with gold futures reduces the variance of a...

Recently, several stock index futures exchanges have experimented with an altered contract design in order to make the contract more attractive and to increase investor accessibility. In 1998, the Swedish futures exchange (OM) split the OMX-index futures contract with a factor 4:1, without...