Reasons for Issuing the Pilot Measures for Asset Management Business of Futures Companies
Up to now, China's futures market has developed rapidly and its scale has been growing. However, compared with the international mature markets, China futures market has irrational investor structure, few institutional investors, insufficient market depth and unstable liquidity. To carry out asset management business pilot, firstly, it is conducive to cultivating and developing institutional investors, improving the investor structure of futures market, improving the pricing efficiency of futures market and promoting the continuous function of futures market; Secondly, it is conducive to giving full play to the professional expertise and comparative advantages of futures companies in the derivatives market, providing asset management services focusing on futures hedging and arbitrage to meet the diversified investment needs of investors; Finally, it will help to further improve the intermediary service ability of futures companies, learn from the general experience of the development of mature international markets, and guide futures companies to provide quality services for the real economy and various investors.