Bond funds that hedge interest rate risk have performed better than those that don't in recent years. The iShares Interest Rate Hedged Corporate Bond ETF is a cost-effective option for investors ...

Hedge funds and wind-farm companies are doing battle in an opaque corner of financial markets. The trade is centered on a gap between deliverable and non-deliverable 10-year Taiwan dollar interest ...

Hedge funds, once critical of the copycat products produced by big banks, are now significantly driving the growth of quantitative investment strategies (QIS). These tools, which replicate popular ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve on the timing and magnitude of U.S. interest rate cuts have accelerated hedging flows into swaptions and derivatives tied to overnight ...

Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the ISDA report on the impact the US, EU and UK’s changing monetary policies had on the IRD landscape. It has been a busy time for interest rate derivative (IRD) traders ...

Hedge funds are now turning to the U.S. dollar for carry trades after pulling back from the Japanese yen for bets on emerging markets two weeks ago, according to CitiGroup. Investors retreated from ...

A major overhaul of the €1.8trn Dutch pension fund industry is set to reverberate across the euro interest rate swaps market, as demand from these prominent users of long-term derivatives declines ...

A sustained rise in Japanese rates could trigger unwinding of the yen carry trade, impacting US equity flows and ...

Deal-contingent hedging (linking the settlement of a vanilla hedging instrument to the success or failure of the underlying transaction) has evolved from an efficient way of mitigating ...

With US investors now able to trade and clear JPY interest rate swaps (IRS) at Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC), ...

(Reuters) - U.S. companies with overseas operations are taking advantage of lower rates in euros to slash their debt funding costs and soften the blow of higher interest rates with a hedging strategy ...

The steep rise in interest rates over the past year is forcing some borrowers to accept a new rule: no hedge, no loan. Highly indebted companies are increasingly facing requirements to hedge their ...