The relationship between institutional investors and the idea of currency risk has been an uneasy one. For a start, there remain an overly large number of investors who are either unwilling or unable, due to the specific regulations of their fund, to consider currency risk as separate and independen[...]
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July 3rd, 2009 - 9:07 pm § in Exchange risk
BUDGET RATES
The setting of budget rates is crucially important for a corporation as it can drive not only the corporation’s hedging but also its pricing strategy as well. Budget exchange rates can be set in several ways. The benchmark or budget rate for an investment in a foreign subsidiary should normally be[...]
July 2nd, 2009 - 9:07 pm § in Currency Risk
BENCHMARKS FOR CURRENCY RISK MANAGEMENT
Corporations can use a variety of hedging benchmarks to manage their hedging strategies more rigorously. Aside from the hedging level as the benchmark (e.g. 75%), corporations which want to limit fluctuation in net equity use the reporting period as the benchmark for forward hedging. Typically, US c[...]