Samsung S&P GSCI Crude Oil ER Futures ETF has lost 45% in HK today
- the biggest decline & to its the lowest level since trading began in May 2016
Samsung Asset Management (Hong Kong) manages the fund
- fund will sell its entire holdings of June oil contracts and buy September contracts.
- warned that in a “worst case scenario,” the net asset value of the fund may drop to zero and investors may suffer “a total loss” of their investments
- The collapse of one of Singapore’s biggest oil traders has raised the prospect of a severe liquidity crunch in the city-state’s under-pressure commodities sector, threatening a wave of defaults and bankruptcies.