KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FCStone Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCSX), a commodity risk management firm, today announced its upcoming participation at the Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. Global Exchange and Electronic Trading Conference in New York City.
Pete Anderson, FCStone's Chief Executive Officer, and Bill Dunaway, Chief Financial Officer, will conduct a presentation on Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM ET. Investors can access the presentation via a live webcast on the investor relations portion of the Company's Web site, www.fcstone.com. A webcast replay will be archived on the Company's Web site for 30 days.
About FCStone Group, Inc.
FCStone Group, Inc., along with its affiliates, is an integrated commodity risk management company providing risk management consulting and transaction execution services to commercial commodity intermediaries, end-users and producers. The firm assists primarily middle market customers in optimizing their profit margins and mitigating exposure to commodity price risk. In addition to risk management consulting services, FCStone, LLC, operates one of the leading independent clearing and execution platforms for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. FCStone Group, Inc., serves more than 8,000 customers and in the 12 months ended February 28, 2009, executed 86.8 million derivative contracts in the exchange-traded and over-the-counter markets. The FCStone Group companies work in all the major commodity areas including agriculture, energy, renewable fuels, foods, forestry, cotton and textile, dairy and currency exchange. Headquartered in the Midwest, it has offices located throughout the world and is a clearing member of all major North American Futures exchanges. FCStone Group, Inc., trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FCSX."