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Investable FX Indices: extending access to uncorrelated and sustainable Currency Returns

Currency Investor Summer 2010 The Index world has grown exponentially over the past two decades. In part this was a result of new investment products emerging from traditional financial marketplaces like national stock exchanges, but also the recognition that alternative asset classes existed into which institutional investors might be persuaded to allocate their money....

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Adapting to a changing landscape

FT Mandate, March 2009 The dire economic situation towards the end of 2008 saw asset-servicers battening down the hatches, but now the institutions have to convince their clients that they provide a safe haven in these troubled times. By Gerry O’Kane. If 2007 was a relatively low-key year for the asset servicing industry, with...

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Putting market volatility to work

FT Mandate, October 2008 Volatility trading is no longer the preserve of hedge funds as traditional investors look to exploit the huge spikes in the market. By Gerry O’Kane. The one consistency the markets have been showing in recent months is volatility. Where there is movement, the investment sector finds opportunity and in recent...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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