New options on A-share ETFs see strong traction

Institutional investors and market-makers are moving quickly to trade options on the two physical A-share exchange-traded funds, the CSOP FTSE China A50 and China AMC CSI 300, which enable them to hedge or seek arbitrage opportunities. In less than two weeks since these options were listed in Hong Kong, open interest volumes of call and put contracts on the China AMC CSI 300 and CSOP FTSE China A50 have been relatively strong, given that newly listed HKEx contracts usually take a …