Fred Arditti, Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s chief economist from 1980 to 1982, played a critical role in the development of the Eurodollar futures contract, today the most actively traded futures contract in the world and one of the most essential building blocks of the interest rate swaps market.
CONTINUE READINGJohn Benjamin spent 40 years in the futures industry and played a leading role as a bridge between the Wall Street investment banks and the Chicago exchange community.
CONTINUE READINGFew in the managed money industry can claim a record as successful as Keith Campbell’s.
CONTINUE READINGMax Chapman was one of the heroes when the futures industry was under attack from those in Washington who believed that stock index futures were the cause of the stock market crash in 1987.
CONTINUE READINGMike Dawley, the outgoing chairman of the FIA, is a managing director and the futures product leader within the global clearing and execution business at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.
CONTINUE READINGBarbara Dixon was one of the first women in the managed futures business.
CONTINUE READINGAs a Kansas congressman and then senator, Bob Dole was far ahead of his colleagues in understanding the benefits of futures for U.S. agriculture.
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