This joint venture, marketed as "Cushman & Wakefield BGC," intends to make sure that the firms become leading players in the evolving property derivatives market, and that they can provide strategic solutions to clients through a combination of market insight, pricing information, structuring of products and trade execution services.
Cushman & Wakefield BGC expects to significantly increase liquidity in the market by offering vanilla derivatives priced against indices such as the Investment Property Databank (IPD). In addition to growing liquidity and trading volumes, Cushman & Wakefield BGC is committed to developing innovative, structured products that are tailored to end user's specific requirements, thereby helping the market reach its full potential.
Together, the firms will target new clients and the existing extensive client contacts of both firms, comprising banks, hedge funds and traditional property market participants (investors and occupiers) who wish to maximize returns and manage risk through the innovative use of property derivatives alongside more familiar derivative products.
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