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From Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

As the financial world still needs some major repairs after 2008, fund managers on the U.S. West Coast have become more flexible with they way they structure their new products and are not necessarily launching them in traditional formats. That was the consensus given by participants at the recent Opalesque Roundtable in San Francisco.

Tina Lemieux, who runs the Hedge Fund and Broker Services Group for CME Group, said they had listed a Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bond futures, called Ultra T-Bond futures, in response to the shift of the U.S. Treasury Department toward greater issuance of long term bonds. So far, the Ultra T-Bond futures has generated over 100,000 contracts after only four months in trading.

Ranjit Sufi of Nuveen Investments, a Chicago-based financial advisor and fund manager, said their latest product was Crossover Energy, a long-only and private equity fund that is also a pure-play natural energy strategy.

For their parts, Hawksbill Capital Management and Evnine & Associates (EvA) have no recent new products, but instead are concentrating on developin......................

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