The recent large moves in the US dollar have brought the idea of currency hedging to investor attention. Currency hedging is often ignored when discussing international equity investments but this ...

Lee Oliver, Euromoney’s FX correspondent, is taking a well-deserved summer break. While he enjoys the clean air of the Alps, The weeklyFiX is supplied by guest writers from the industry. Our second ...

The KFA MLM Index, which is tracked by the Mount Lucas Managed Futures Index Strategy ETF, finished the quarter down 2.6%. Managed Futures strategies historically have provided diversification in ...

The relationship between the creditworthiness of the hundreds of names that might be referenced in a CDO creates a new risk category. Default correlation risk is the risk that one default makes ...

Stochastic volatility is the unpredictable nature of asset price volatility over time. It's a flexible alternative to the Black Scholes' constant volatility assumption.

US stock markets have delivered a trading bonanza for investors betting on dispersion – a complex derivatives strategy that profits from share prices heading in different directions – after a ...

Gold remains one of the most powerful commodities in the global financial architecture. It is widely recognized that, for traders in Nigeria, specifically, currency pressures, inflation expectations, ...