Simply sign up to the Foreign exchange myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The US’s “strong dollar” policy hasn’t been formally abandoned. But eight months of mercurial — some might say ...

As with stocks, unhedged bonds have two components to their returns: the security’s gains and the gain or loss in the currency. If the local currency appreciates versus the dollar, the currency effect ...

[TAIPEI] The Taiwan dollar’s recent weakness and the resulting return of carry trades are quickly driving down local life insurers’ hedging costs. Three-month dollar hedging costs using Taiwan ...

Discover how AllianzGI’s FX Overlay strategy helps fixed income investors reduce currency hedging costs by up to 60%. Learn about dynamic hedge ratios, collar strategies, and new mutual fund share ...

Rising fears about the outlook for the dollar may make it more compelling to hedge currency exposure. This is not just a theory: investors are increasing hedges on their US holdings. To recap, forward ...

[SINGAPORE] The US dollar’s recent weakness against major currencies such as the euro and Singapore dollar has pushed hedging costs sharply higher. It has now reached a point where the cost of hedging ...

Retailers in the United Kingdom are increasingly facing currency exposure as they sell through international e-commerce marketplaces. Revenues are frequently received in United States dollars or euros ...

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 ...

Taiwan’s life insurers have cut their currency hedging to a record low, while boosting their buffer against foreign-exchange risks to give themselves a greater capacity to ride out any potential ...