Author : Lee R. Thomas
Publisher : Ifr Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This title provides a forum for the discussion surrounding the use of currency hedging for portfolio managment and examines the arguments for the different hedging techniques. The main arguments are outlined with contributions from both academics and practitioners. The evidence on the performance of various funds is examined in detail.
Author : Camila Casas
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1484330609
Most trade is invoiced in very few currencies. Despite this, the Mundell-Fleming benchmark and its variants focus on pricing in the producer’s currency or in local currency. We model instead a ‘dominant currency paradigm’ for small open economies characterized by three features: pricing in a dominant currency; pricing complementarities, and imported input use in production. Under this paradigm: (a) the terms-of-trade is stable; (b) dominant currency exchange rate pass-through into export and import prices is high regardless of destination or origin of goods; (c) exchange rate pass-through of non-dominant currencies is small; (d) expenditure switching occurs mostly via imports, driven by the dollar exchange rate while exports respond weakly, if at all; (e) strengthening of the dominant currency relative to non-dominant ones can negatively impact global trade; (f) optimal monetary policy targets deviations from the law of one price arising from dominant currency fluctuations, in addition to the inflation and output gap. Using data from Colombia we document strong support for the dominant currency paradigm.
Author : Hau Harald
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498303773
New regulatory data reveal extensive price discrimination against non-financial clients in the FX derivatives market. The client at the 90th percentile pays an effective spread of 0.5%, while the bottom quarter incur transaction costs of less than 0.02%. Consistent with models of search frictions in over-the-counter markets, dealers charge higher spreads to less sophisticated clients. However, price discrimination is eliminated when clients trade through multi-dealer request-for-quote platforms. We also document that dealers extract rents from captive clients and market opacity, but only for contracts negotiated bilaterally with unsophisticated clients.
Author : Mr.Jack Ree
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475565178
This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks’ foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted with each other during the Global Financial Crisis, and whether the vulnerability stemming from this interaction has been reduced since then. Structural and cyclical changes after the crisis, including decreasing demand for currency hedges and the diversifying investor base for bonds, point to a possible weakening of the interaction mechanism; and we find evidences are strongly supportive of this.
Author : Frank J. Fabozzi, CFA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781883249311
U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into the international fixed income markets. In Perspectives on International Fixed Income Investing, an international cast of experts discusses proven strategies for investing successfully in these challenging markets. Topics addressed include assessing credit risk, managing currency volatility, understanding local markets, and maximizing yields.
Author : Kenneth Froot
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Financial futures
ISBN :
This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long horizons. At horizons of several years, complete hedging not only does not lower return variance, it actually increases the return variance of many portfolios. Hedge ratios chosen to minimize long-run return variance are not only low, they also have no perceptible impact on return variance. The paper reports and explores these results, their apparent causes, and investigates their implications for hedging practice.
Author : Jochen M. Schmittmann
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1455201340
This paper examines the benefits from hedging the currency exposure of international investments in single- and multi-country equity and bond portfolios from the perspectives of German, Japanese, British and American investors. Over the period 1975 to 2009, hedging of currency risk substantially reduced the volatility of foreign investments at a quarterly investment horizon. Contrary to previous studies, the paper finds that at longer investment horizons of up to five years the case for hedging for risk reduction purposes remained strong.In addition to its impact on risk, hedging affected returns in economically meaningful magnitudes in some cases.
Author : Callum Henderson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470029730
Currency Strategy, Second Edition develops new techniques and explains classic tools available for predicting, managing, and optimizing fluctuations in the currency markets. Author Callum Henderson shows readers ho to use mathematical models to assist in the prediction of crises and gives practical advice on how to use these and other tools successfully. Given there such huge focus on China at the moment, the timing of this new edition is particularly important. The new edition will feature a thorough update on the key developments in the past 3 years, new chapters on emerging markets, an in-depth review of the markets of China and India and their currencies and much more.
Author : Frank J. Fabozzi, CFA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1999-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781883249564
Perspectives on Investment Management of Public Pension Funds covers all aspects of the management of public pension funds. Experts in the field provide practical guidelines for managers on the implications of investment strategies behind these funds.
Author : Neil Record
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2004-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470871636
Currency overlay is the management of the currency exposure inherent in cross-border institutional investments. Exposure to foreign currencies increases the volatility of their returns, without increasing the returns themselves and academics and consultants recommended that the currency exposure should be stripped out of international portfolios and eliminated as far as practicable. This book provides a comprehensive description of currency overlay, its history and possible future developments and growth, the reason for its emergence, the debates and controversies, the different styles of currency management, and the industry's performance track record. This is a subject of international appeal and is an area of particular growth potential for institutional investors. Coverage includes: The theoretical case for eliminating currency risk in international portfolios The interplay between asset returns and currency returns, and the effect of this on hedging decisions Benchmarks - their construction and strategic role Least-cost passive overlay The structure of the currency market, and its 'inefficiencies' Active overlay styles Active overlay both restricted and unrestricted (currency alpha) Uses diagrams, charts, tables and explanatory boxes to explain concepts
