Currency overlay

Best FX overlay manager: State Street

In the most challenging market environment in many years, demand for State Street’s currency management offering spiked in 2022 as market participants sought assistance in minimising their FX risk and optimising their hedging activities

Short volatility strategy pays off in August

Currency managers going short volatility in August would have been top performers, benefiting from a spike in volatility towards the end of July from the dual effect of the US and European sovereign debt crisis, according to research from Royal Bank of…

Intervention: friend or foe?

If the trend is your friend, is central bank intervention your enemy? The answer is not so clear cut, say Christopher Cruden and Purnur Schneider, not least because of the breadth of interventions, which challenges attempts at uniform analysis

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