Features/Foreign Exchange
Estimating intrinsic currency values
Forex market practitioners constantly talk about the strengthening or weakening of individual currencies. In this article, Jian Chen and Paul Doust present a new methodology to quantify these statements...
The collapse of the Australian dollar against the greenback in the past three months has exacerbated the funding pressures being placed on Australia's superannation funds. Rachel Alembakis reports
Participation levels in foreign exchange have declined during the past year due to a contraction of the hedge fund industry and exit of many currency day traders. But hedging activity is picking up as...
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After the dust settles
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other banks last year proved that settlement risk in the forex market has been greatly reduced. But, while operational risk managers may be giving themselves a pat on the back, there are warnings that settlement risk...
US Wrap: Is Barclays note flood sign of rebound?
Barclays Bank has launched 31 new reverse convertible notes into the US market, one of the most compelling signs yet of an upturn in issuance. By far the most prevalent theme was energy, which represented the underlying for 10 of the new notes. Financial...
iShares acquires Mexico’s Naftrac ETF
iShares has acquired the largest and first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Mexico and Latin America. The Naftrac ETF follows the performance of the IPC (Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones), which is a Mexican stock market index.
Hess leaves Goldman Sachs and returns to Citi
Dirk Hess has joined Citi as a director in the EMEA retail structured products business. Hess will split his time between London and Frankfurt, and be responsible for working across the sales, marketing and new issuance teams to build out Citi's cross-asset...
Grail swoops into US ETF market with actively-managed ETF
Grail Advisers has listed its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Arca platform of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF is an actively-managed fund which uses multi-managers to achieve its return, like...
SP Magazine Survey: UK IFAs want structured products
The first Structured Products survey of the UK's independent financial adviser (IFA) market has thrown up startlingly positive results which endorse the view that investors are becoming tired of the minimal income on offer from other investment tools....
Time to dust off business continuity plans in preparation for a global...
Although symptoms of swine flu are mild and the threat from a global pandemic has been widely over-hyped by the world media, op risk managers should be looking to ensure they have sufficient contingency plans in place.
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