South Korea’s National Pension Service will take a more “flexible” approach to strategic foreign-exchange hedging as it moves to shore up the country’s beleaguered currency.
Fintech services provide retailers with the option to receive payouts in their original currency and convert them only when ...
Investors would not be to blame for detesting the international sleeve of their portfolios over the past decade. Coming out of the global financial crisis in 2009, the U.S. equity market has easily ...
The case for strategic currency hedging is based on an objective of reducing portfolio volatility, but at current low levels of sterling, UK investors have every incentive to implement the hedge now.
The primary objective of currency hedging is mitigating FX risk, and it’s important to note that hedged returns are not the same as local-currency returns. Currency hedging alters the risk-return ...
Nearly half of UK businesses surveyed by FX and cash management solutions provider MillTech say that they have lost money due to a volatile pound and plan to hedge more of their currency risk, and for ...
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF is a currency-hedged exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of large and mid-sized Japanese companies, reducing exposure to currency fluctuations. The ...
Global macro hedge funds employ a top-down investment approach, focusing on macroeconomic factors and political events to make investment decisions. This approach involves analyzing economic ...
Currency swaps silently set the stage for a lot of economic activity worldwide. According to the latest reliable data, global daily currency swaps in 2022 was about $400 billion, around 5% of the $8.1 ...
What Is a Global Macro Hedge Fund? Global macro hedge funds are specialized investment vehicles that aim to generate returns by identifying and capitalizing on global economic trends and shifts in ...