The WisdomTree
Emerging Currency Strategy Fund (CEW), which tracks a basket of 15 EM currencies, is up 2.9 % already this year on top of last year's 11.1 % gain.
Not exact matches
These include
currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds,
emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed
strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.
Our Global Market
Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their de
Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments,
emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic
strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their de
strategies)
currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.
On 10/24/16, the Schroder Absolute Return EMD and
Currency Fund (the «Predecessor Fund») was reorganized into the Hartford Schroders
Emerging Markets Debt &
Currency Fund, a new Hartford Fund that has substantially the same objective and
strategies as the Predecessor Fund.
Decoupling bonds from their
currency risk in
Emerging Markets as well represents another favored
strategy that flexible bond
strategies can employ to help investors navigate a more volatile investment environment in 2015.
Speaking at the Morningstar conference in June, Hasenstab outlined the Global Macro team's
strategy and potential opportunities they see within three tiers: developed - market
currencies, US Treasuries and
emerging markets.
Their fund focuses on real return
strategies and dabbles in the following asset classes: commodities, inflation linked bonds, liquid
emerging market bonds, equities, and
currencies.
For that reason, many looking at carry trading
strategies will have to go out over the risk curve and borrow in a cheap major
currency in order to buy a higher - yielding
emerging market (EM)
currency in order to earn a yield beyond that of higher - duration US Treasury bonds (considered safe yield).
The big decline in May - June was caused by an indication by the Federal Reserve that it may begin tapering its quantitative easing
strategy by year's end, which caused the domestic interest rates to rise and
emerging market
currencies to fall against the dollar.
Decoupling bonds from their
currency risk in
Emerging Markets as well represents another favored
strategy that flexible bond
strategies can employ to help investors navigate a more volatile investment environment in 2015.
Samuel Finkelstein is head of
Currency, Commodities and
Emerging Market Debt
strategy teams within the Global Fixed Income team in GSAM.
Actively managed ETFs are new investment vehicles that will allow investors to participate in an actively managed portfolio
strategy that could range from tactical to traditional asset allocation and from sophisticated
currency strategies to
emerging markets.
FRB10 Index,
Emerging Market, Momentum and Value can also be combined to create the Record
Currency Multi ‑
Strategy product.
David has more than 25 years of investment experience in broad
emerging markets with the majority of his career spent as a trader and portfolio manager allocating across equity, fixed income,
currencies and derivatives within both long - only and long - short
strategies.
That
strategy of launching new products includes introducing a higher proportion of premium notebooks as opposed to entry - level ones, in an effort to maintain its profit margin in
emerging markets like Brazil, Russia and South East Asia, in the face of depreciating local
currencies.