Currency investing is a well-established corner of institutional investing that has the potential to provide stable returns while simultaneously diversifying traditional equities and fixed income.

Discover how interest rate fluctuations affect fixed-income securities and explore derivatives, swaps, and options to manage ...

Many countries go to great lengths to manage their exchange rates. Probably the most prominent recent example is the European Monetary Union, where all the members abandoned their national currencies ...

Currency arbitrage refers to the practice of taking advantage of exchange rate differences in various foreign exchange market venues to make a net profit. Currency arbitrage plays a significant role ...

Today’s economic reality includes a world of free-floating fiat currencies, where the value of a nation’s currency is determined by supply and demand in the global foreign exchange or forex market.

Understand how interest rate risk affects bond income and retirement portfolios—and how to manage price and reinvestment risk strategically.

Investors would not be to blame for detesting the international sleeve of their portfolios over the past decade. Coming out of the global financial crisis in 2009, the U.S. equity market has easily ...

BMO Capital Markets predicts higher prices for gold and silver as a hedge against the instability of fiat currencies. Inflation in the US dollar can have significant implications for dollarized ...

Korea’s won-dollar exchange rate could become highly volatile during global financial turmoil because the country holds large amounts of dollar assets that are sensitive to exchange rate changes, the ...

The U.S. dollar has seen some remarkable swings against major currencies recently. For example, over most of 2005, it gained nearly 18% against the yen and 13% against the euro, while between March ...

The risk-free rate is the rate of return offered by an investment that carries zero risk. Every investment asset carries some level of risk, however small, so the risk-free rate is something of a ...