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CURRENCY NEWS

Peru increases limits on banks, pension funds currency holdings

Global Pensions | 16 Feb 2010 | 12:10

PERU - Banks and pension funds’ foreign currency purchases will be capped at 75% of assets under regulations issued by Peru’s banking superintendent.

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Regulator limits Chilean schemes currency hedging

CHILE – Chilean pension regulator Superintendencia de Pensiones has limited schemes’ currency hedging to 50% of the value of their exposure to foreign assets.

Global Pensions | 29 Jan 2010

Stock market boost for Canadian funds

CANADA – The global stock market rally helped Canadian schemes claw back most of their 2008 losses, a survey showed.

Global Pensions | 25 Jan 2010

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Considering currency

Is there beta in currency? If so, will the creation of a currency index series, the FTSE Currency Forward Rate Bias (FRB) Index Series, help investors view currency as an asset class in its own right? Industry experts discuss the merits of currency as an asset class

Currency management forum London

Giovanni Legorano reports from Global Pensions' annual Currency Management Forum held on June 11, 2009 at the Grange City, London

Reducing currency volatility

Following the volatility in currency markets, investors have returned to hedging and are looking at ways of reducing risk, as Raquel Pichardo-Allison reports

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Video: interview with Jonathan Boersma, CFA Institute

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Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.

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Are claims that the European Commission's alternative investment fund manager directive will cause an exodus of alternative managers from Europe overblown?

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