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Eighth European Performance Awards 2008

Winners celebrate success and achievements of hedge fund industry

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jul 2008secure

CLS: the missing link in foreign exchange settlements

Foreign exchange (FX) markets are in the midst of profound change, yet many investment managers who trade currencies are unaware of it. The Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) service offered by CLS Bank......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jan 2008secure

Carry-trade capitulation

When the market turmoil subsides, the yen will give up some of its 2007 gains in 2008 and will remain undervalued by past norms, writes Gabriel de Kock, Citi's global currency economist in New York, in......

Hedge Funds Review | 03 Sep 2007secure

Follow the leader as EFG proves private banks is where structuring's smart money is

While structuring products may once have been the preserve of large asset management houses, private banks are starting to open their expertise in bespoke structuring to the outside world, as Rasik Ahuja,......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jun 2007secure

Carry on reaping the profits?

The yen carry trade was all the rage with hedge funds until, earlier this year, suddenly it wasn't. Daniel Murray from EFG Private Bank in London surveys the carry strategy and discusses whether it still......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Jun 2007secure

Barclays Capital warns of potential risks in carry trade

The Carry trade, one of the ongoing star trades in the traders toolbox, hit a wall this week, according to a report published by Barclays Capital called Carry trades- market regimes, positioning risk and......

Hedge Funds Review | 26 Jan 2007secure

The way forward for Asian FX

Asia is not just a market for equities and bond trading. Its FX offerings have enjoyed growth well above the 57% global FX trading growth from 2001-2004, and non-deliverable forwards have played a role......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Oct 2006secure

Trends re-emerge from China's yuan unpegging

Hedge funds have predicted bountiful trends following China's revaluation of its renmimbi, although the currency's unpegging from the Greenback on 21 July hit some funds initially as a popular dollar trend......

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Aug 2005secure

Dollar set to strengthen as China revalues

Analysts have marked today’s unexpected revaluation of China’s renminbi by Beijing authorities as the “end of the cycle of dollar weakness.”Beijing sparking frantic activity on the world’s foreign......

Hedge Funds Review | 21 Jul 2005secure

FX managers switch dollar shorts to emerging markets crosses

With the dollar-versus-major-currencies story exhausted, some hedge fund managers are seeking profits in dollar plays against developing markets

Hedge Funds Review | 01 Apr 2005secure

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