On Tuesday, CME Group (CME) announced the launch of FuturesFundamentals.com, an innovative?educational website to help explain the role of futures markets in everyday life.This comes through using?easy-to-understand content for everyone from students to experienced market participants. It includes investing concepts such as futures, hedging and speculating and shows how they play an essential role in the world around us.?
In addition, the site incorporates interactive elements like video and quizzes, as well as a infographics to simplify complex market topics. According to CME’s release, the site’s goal is to make financial education an engaging experience for anyone, regardless of their experience in finance.
?Anita Liskey, CME Group Managing Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications, said,?”Over the past few years, we have seen a real need for information about how people and businesses manage risk, and how that risk impacts people’s everyday lives. Our goal for this site is to be a go-to resource on the futures industry, and why futures and options matter – whether you’re a novice on Main Street or an expert on Wall Street.”
Highlights of the site can be viewed in a video?as well as the site at FuturesFundamentals.com.?
The website provides information on the derivatives industry as a whole, and is the latest by CME for risk management education. One earlier example comes from 2013 as CME embarked on a partnership with the National 4-H Council to bring a Commodity Carnival game to over 130 state and county fairs, reaching 50,000 fairgoers with information about managing risk in agriculture. ?
Currently, CME is?in the middle of its annual CME Group Trading Challenge, which attracted 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students in 2013 from 25 different countries to learn more about futures trading.?