Currency Overlay

Provides a comprehensive description of currency overlay, its history, the reason for its emergence, the debates and controversies, the different styles of currency management, and the industry's performance track record. This book also uses diagrams, charts, tables and explanatory boxes to explain the concepts. Currency overlay has grown in parallel with the international diversification of institutional investment portfolios. Currency overlay mandates now cover around $100bn in assets, and 18 years since the first overlay mandate, currency overlay has now come of age. Currency Overlay looks at all the components that make up an overlay mandate and the decisions and analysis leading up to it. It is written in an accessible style, designed for the interested asset manager, pension fund manager, investment consultant, trustee or student. Many of the author's analyses start from first principles. Concepts important to the case are fully explained before utilising them, allowing the reader with no prior knowledge of the subject to exercise independent judgement. The author makes wide use of self-contained 'boxes' to illustrate and explain particular elements or concepts. Currency Overlay covers, amongst other topics: * The theoretical case for eliminating currency risk in international portfolios * The interplay between asset returns and currency returns, and the effect of this on hedging decisions * Benchmarks - their construction and strategic role * Least-cost passive overlay * The structure of the currency market, and its 'inefficiencies' * Active overlay styles * Active overlay both restricted and unrestricted (currency alpha) Currency overlay is the management of the currency exposure inherent in cross-border institutional investments. Exposure to foreign currencies increases the volatility of their returns, without increasing the returns themselves and academics and consultants recommended that the currency exposure should be stripped out of international portfolios and eliminated as far as practicable. This book provides a comprehensive description of currency overlay, its history and possible future developments and growth, the reason for its emergence, the debates and controversies, the different styles of currency management, and the industry's performance track record. This is a subject of international appeal and is an area of particular growth potential for institutional investors. Coverage includes: The theoretical case for eliminating currency risk in international portfolios The interplay between asset returns and currency returns, and the effect of this on hedging decisions Benchmarks - their construction and strategic role Least-cost passive overlay The structure of the currency market, and its 'inefficiencies' Active overlay styles Active overlay both restricted and unrestricted (currency alpha) Uses diagrams, charts, tables and explanatory boxes to explain concepts

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