(Post-financial-crisis lore has taught us that these instruments are sometimes used to bet against things, but CDS are most often
used as hedges against bets that the world won't end.)
It is
used as a hedge against inflation; safe - haven asset in times of wars and political uncertainty; alternate asset class to equities and fixed - income instruments; near - cash; and metal of choice in a number of industries.
As I told Daniela Cambone during last week's edition of Gold Game Film, this is all very constructive for the price of gold, which has historically been
used as a hedge during periods of rising inflation.
In Greece and on Cyprus, it has been
used as a hedge to store and transfer value between individuals.
But with implied volatility particularly low, we have bought in a good portion of the corresponding short - call positions we were
using as a hedge.
I wrote about gold's
use as a hedge on Sept. 15 over at Asia Times Online.
Possibly you could
use it as a hedging instrument if it's correlated in some way with another asset you're holding.
For example, copper is
used as a hedging tool, for global price discovery, that leads to a diversified portfolio.
Our clients are primarily institutions who
use us as a hedge to their core equity portfolio.
When he inputs a derivative
used as a hedge it allows the risk associated with the price of the underlying asset to be transferred between both parties involved in the contract being traded.
Can VIX - related products be
used as hedging tools for some bond sectors that Read more -LSB-...]
Leveraged ETFs can be
used as a hedge but their effectiveness and risk vs reward, especially in terms of higher volatility, should be studied and considered carefully by investors on an individual basis.
Gold is
used as a hedge investment against inflation and is the perfect way to store wealth over time.
: Currency trading is mainly
used as a hedging technique by importers and exporters.
Accounting rules require the fixed - rate liability
used as the hedging instrument to be adjusted to fair value, with gains or losses recorded in the «other comprehensive income» account within the equity section of the balance sheet.
Investments in Gold are
used as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation, and as a safe haven against any economic crises.
The appeal to a hedge fund manager of being able to short an entire market index or a whole sector with one transaction, instead of say 500 separate stock shorts to span the S&P 500 Index, makes ETFs very widely
used as hedging vehicles by short - sellers.
Personally,
I use mine as a hedge against holding the over-rated Chase Sapphire Preferred.
This could be
used as a hedge against current ongoing inflation as well as any unexpected depression.
They also
use it as a hedge against claims on their homeowners policy.
Foreign reserves are additionally
used as a hedge against its own economy.
More Chinese investors are buying Bitcoin to
use as a hedge against the falling Yuan.
Not exact matches
Investors often
use gold
as a
hedge against inflation, but higher interest rates dent the appeal of gold, which earns nothing and costs money to store and insure.
«The gap for ETFs vs. TIFs (
as Bogle calls traditional index funds) is no doubt wider, given that the ETF investor base is much different and the
use cases for ETFs are far more varied (
hedging, shorting, arb trades, etc.) than those for TIFs (buy, hold, rebalance).
In his current role
as President and Chief Strategist of Optimize Advisors, Mike
uses pioneering and proprietary artificial intelligence technology to advise
hedge funds, banks, pensions, mutual funds, insurance companies, and family offices in the effective
use of listed options for enhancing returns and managing risk.
Hedge funds, manufacturers and e-commerce companies all
use Spire's data,
as do nonprofits, Earth scientists and government offices.
(Lewis
used to work for Thiel
as the vice president of marketing at Clarium Capital, a
hedge fund run by Thiel.)
Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the
use of negative rates
as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest
hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.
The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party;
use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest
as aggressively
as possible in stock and property overseas
as a
hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.
If you want to
hedge your bets with your crowdfunding project, and you should, build a customer base first and then
use a platform like Kickstarter
as a marketing tool.
nWomen
use hedge phrases such
as «I believe» or «It seems to me» more often than men.
Factom will be
using Tether
as a
hedging mechanism against Bitcoin's infamous volatility in the company's upcoming sale of its Factom software.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive
hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now
using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
«NASDAQ ®, NASDAQ OMX ®, NASDAQ - 100 ®, NASDAQ - 100 Currency
Hedged CAD IndexSM are trademarks of The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (which with its affiliates is referred to
as «NASDAQ OMX») and have been licensed for
use by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. has sublicensed the
use of the trademark to BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited.
A 49 - year - old Wilton man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for
using hedge - fund money for his own personal
use as part of a $ 6 million - plus Ponzi scheme.
GDX is quite popular with investors, with
hedge funds
using it to take positions on gold miners and individual investors
using it
as an alternative to investing in physical gold.
[10] The survey separately identifies OTC derivatives that can be
used to
hedge FX risk (such
as forwards, swaps and options) and OTC derivatives that can be
used to
hedge interest rate risk (such
as single - currency fixed for floating rate swaps).
As at the end of March 2013, international investment position (IIP) data indicated that Australian entities overall had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to 27 per cent of GDP before taking into account the
use of derivatives for
hedging purposes (ABS 2013a).
The general government sector — which consists of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency asset position equivalent to around 3 per cent of GDP
as at the end of March 2013, before taking into account the
use of derivatives for
hedging purposes (Table 2).
Many investors
use binary options
as an effective technique to
hedge their other active positions and investments.
Such liquidity, flexibility and transparency have persuaded a wider range of investors to
use hedge strategies
as a complement to more traditional portfolios.
Farmers
use them to initiate
hedge positions and
as a guide
as to when cash corn should be sold.
Last month, it filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accusing him of
using Retrophin
as a personal piggy bank to pay back angry investors in his
hedge fund.
This is a concern for investors
using fixed income
as a
hedge against equity volatility.
CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas
hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to
as you can continue to
use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.
Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we
use to
hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time
as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles
as threats to our own returns.
When we are fully
hedged,
as we are at present (and provided that our long - put / short - call option combinations have identical strike - prices and expirations), the source of our returns is the performance of our favored stocks relative to the indices which we
use to
hedge.
It is not
used to shift or
hedge any economic risk or
as a bet against FedEx shares and, therefore, does not create any misalignment of management and stockholder interests.
Used in everything from autos to appliances, copper is widely watched
as an economic bellwether — and this same relationship makes it a good inflation
hedge.
Firms such
as Renaissance Technologies, a massive
hedge fund that relies on computing power to make bets, are
using technology profitably, he says.