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![]() September 29, 2008 Actuarials Holdings Goes "Public" – CLICK HERE FOR LATEST PRESS RELEASE (pdf) PRESS RELEASE
Embargoed until September 29, 2008
Revolutionary Derivative Opens New Profit
Opportunities with Immunity against Excess Market Volatility
Chicago, IL, September
29, 2008 - Actuarials Holdings LLC (AH), parent company of Everest OTC Trade
Facility and the AE Clearinghouse, today unveiled a revolutionary "safe"
derivative called the Clipper. Tested by institutional investors in hundreds
of thousands of trades during a 10-month pilot, the Clipper is a precise
antidote for the turbulent market conditions faced by traders today.
The Clipper enables traders to
control total risk, highly leverage their capital, and eliminate
counterparty risk. "Clippers are the most
important financial innovation in 25 years," says Alger "Duke" Chapman,
former chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, now chairman
of the advisory board of Actuarials Holdings. "Not just because they are
crash-proof, but because they provide unparalleled capital efficiency to
speculators, hedgers, and arbitrageurs. If we had Clippers in the meltdown
of 1987, many traders who went bankrupt would have been saved." The Clipper is a
"standard manufacture" derivative that structurally caps a gain or loss from
an underlying asset to a "clip limit" amount. Whether the trader initiates
the short or long side, the trade is automatically filled on a dark-pool
exchange. A range of intraday -- at every quarter-hour and hour - overnight,
weekly, and monthly expirations make Clippers appropriate for almost every
trading style or strategy. The Clipper is a
“capital multiplier” unlike any other instrument. For example, an overnight
10-cent Clipper on 100,000 shares of a $20 stock risks a maximum of $10,000
for the buyer and seller. In contrast, an outright purchase of the stock
would risk up to $2,000,000, making the capital leverage in this example
20:1. The leverage increases with more expensive underlying assets. With no
sale or purchase of underlyings involved, there is no impact on underlying
market prices. Cash-based Clippers
have no counterparty risk. Margins equal to the clip limit are deducted from
the cash account of each counterparty at the start of the trade, and cash
settled upon expiration. Execution is anonymous and trading costs are lower
than any comparable market. "With Clippers, traders
get the full opportunity to pick up targeted return with every execution,"
said Adam Burczyk, founder and CEO of Actuarial Holdings.
"By removing tail risks, Clippers provide a stable way to earn consistent
profits. And excess volatility in trade P/L is completely eliminated." Clippers are traded,
settled, and bilaterally-cleared exclusively on the Everest OTC trading
facility. Trading is limited to eligible contract participants, who must
have $1 million or more in trading assets under management in a corporation
or partnership. For more information about the Clipper, please visit
www.actuarials.com or contact
Kasim.Ali@actuarials.com. NOTES FOR EDITORS: Trader Perspectives "We made our first
Clipper trade in January, and by June we saw so much potential that we
dropped equities altogether," says Matt Mills, principal of Pinnacle
Equities Management, the oldest and most successful independent proprietary
trading firm in Vancouver. "Whatever your risk model, Clipper offers a
matrix of opportunities that's completely different from the linear model of
options." Brian Zwerner,
principal of Kensington Blake Capital of Atlanta, notes, "I use Clippers to
tactically tilt my portfolio on a short-term basis, when it's not attractive
to unwind a position. I like that I can take a relatively large position
with a limited downside, and that I don't have to watch it every minute." "A Clipper is as good
as your own ideas, in fact better because it gives the trader more staying
power," says Keith Coppola, vice president of CT Trades LLC in New Jersey,
a proprietary day-trading shop. "It's an easy learn for younger traders, and
a lot less risk because you choose your exposure. I think it's the best
thing that's come into the market in a long time." About Actuarials
Holdings Headquartered in
Chicago, Actuarials Holdings provides qualified traders and financial
intermediaries with new capital markets and derivatives instruments. AH
operates a vertically-integrated execution and bilateral clearing agency,
featuring straight-through processing from order inception to settlement,
including custodial management of deposited funds. Staffed and capitalized
by industry veterans, AH is a privately-held firm.
### Media contact: Kathleen Hawk Cognito for Actuarials
Holdings +1 845 687-2222
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