Transaction exposure is the level of uncertainty businesses involved in international trade face. Specifically, it is the risk that currency exchange rates will fluctuate after a firm has already ...

Fifth Third reports middle market firms are increasingly adopting long-term currency and commodity hedging strategies to ...

Two questions about a portfolio’s currency exposure are why hedge, and how to hedge. 1. Why should I hedge currency exposure? Currency exposure is a non-trivial element of a global portfolio’s ...

Given the US dollar’s recent slump, investors have finally started reaping rewards from international diversification. A big part of that was driven by currency movements: When the dollar is weak, the ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Recently we’ve heard it repeated that: “hedged returns are just the same as local currency returns,” which was a reasonable heuristic but is no longer the case. Recent fragility in the US dollar means ...

LONDON — Investors rushing to protect their U.S. assets against dollar depreciation could test banks’ ability to meet demand for hedging, said a senior trader at UBS, one of the world’s top currency ...

This article appears courtesy of Global Investor. Here’s an opportunity for European pension funds : they, and other foreign investors, can now delegate responsibility for hedging currency exposure to ...

The vast majority of Australia’s pension funds intend to shield their portfolios from currency swings amid fears tensions in ...

Are there special hedging provisions for section 988 transactions? Yes. In addition to the business hedging rules I address in our earlier Q&A with Andie series,[1] a special hedging provision is ...

While the US dollar was continually getting stronger and sterling was continually getting weaker, British investors rarely needed to worry too much about currency movements. If you held an ...