Currency – Page 11
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: There’s gold in currency trading
Christopher Cruden makes the case for investing in gold by treating it as a major currency
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NewsComplementa: Swiss schemes increasing alternatives, FX hedging
Consultancy’s risk study shows success of more ‘expensive’ strategies
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NewsJoseph Mariathasan: Share holders and currency exposures
Joseph Mariathasan looks into how companies should trade currency in what looks set to be a volatile year
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Special Report
Outlook 2016: Weighing currency’s value
Currency movements are capable of wrong-footing even the experts. Yet many argue that there are enough predictable patterns to these movements to make currency a valuable asset class
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Special Report
Special Report: Currency - A dangerously underrated risk
Anthony Harrington finds that investors can easily overlook the foreign exchange risk that comes with investing outside of their own currency area
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Special Report
Debate: Is a world currency war ahead?
Yes, says Michael Howell, managing director of CrossBorder Capital As the world gets bigger it seems to become ever more volatile. So its financial markets ride an endemic eight or nine rollercoaster with dizzying, white-knuckle peaks occurring in 1972, 1981, 1989, 1998, 2007-08 and now maybe in 2015 too. ...
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Another summer passes with huge market moves and chaotic trading days. China’s stock markets ‘wobbles’ are still ongoing, and while emerging markets – especially in Asia – are still being sorely buffeted, more developed markets have attained some degree of calm.
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News
Varma warns exchange rate risk returning to euro
Finnish pensions insurer sees 4.3% first-half investment return
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
This year looks like it could be remembered as the Bund sell-off year, or perhaps even the Bund Blowback, with one of the intraday price falls larger than any recorded (by Bloomberg) in the past quarter century
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NewsInsurance company tenders €200m EM currency mandate using IPE-Quest
Strategy should combine top-down country/sector selection with bottom-up duration/issue selection
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Although the severe winter did have a significant impact on US economic activity in the first quarter, the strength of the headwinds from a stronger dollar and the collapse in capital spending within the energy sector have also taken their toll
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
As the US economy continues to recover, the hour when the Fed starts to tighten is approaching
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News
Danish central bank blames pension funds for pressure on krone
Two-thirds of currency inflows came from domestic parties over January-February period
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Special ReportSmart beta and currencies
In currency markets there is arguably no beta, but risk-factor trading has a long history in the asset class
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Features
Asset Allocation: Fixed income, Rates, Currencies - The big picture
Getting the big picture right always helps and sometimes it makes subsequent investment decision-making blindingly obvious. But so often there seem to be diametrically opposed eventualities, with ambiguity everywhere. The dramatic fall in the oil price, for example, is creating plenty of puzzlement.
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News
Swiss Pensionskassen increase equities to counteract SNB losses
Snapshots offered by Credit Suisse, UBS show how pension market fared in wake of decision to end currency peg
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Swiss AHV’s FX hedge prevents CHF1bn loss
Selective currency hedging saved Swiss first pillar fund from major losses in the wake of SNB decision
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UK Coal scheme lodges legal complaint over Towers Watson advice
Trustee body for industry-wide fund alleges ‘negligent’ investment advice led to multi-million loss on currency hedge
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NewsSwiss pension funds cautious of 'captive' relationship with local banks
Schemes increasingly aware they must not be seen as captive clients of country’s largest banks
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Features
Asset Allocation Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: The big picture
When the Fed embarked upon its first round of quantitative easing five years ago, there were fears of an inflation time bomb. The Fed has already purchased its last lot of Treasuries under QE3, but is still executing regular MBS purchases, as forward inflation expectations in the US and Europe are as low as they have been for years.
