Local Currencies

Our team has worked in local-currency markets since their birth in the late 1990s. From FX relative value (see below) to options, bonds, interest rate and inflation swaps, and swaptions, we know every product intimately.

Having helped introduce the asset class to hard-currency emerging-market investors when it was new, we know the questions it raises. Today we put that experience to work for investors looking for relative value, for issuers optimising their borrowing, and for anyone making the case for local markets.

South African government bond yields against the fitted Nelson-Siegel-Svensson curve, over the curves since March 2020 South African government bond yields against the fitted Nelson-Siegel-Svensson curve, over the curves since March 2020
South African Government Bonds Nelson-Siegel-Svensson yield curve relative value model, with history.
Alpha of 27 currencies against the FX Risk Index, arranged in a diamond from trading well at the top to trading badly at the bottom Alpha of 27 currencies against the FX Risk Index, arranged in a diamond from trading well at the top to trading badly at the bottom
Above: an example of our “alpha diamond”, which first extracts market beta using PCA or autoencoder dimensionality reduction, and then visualises the distribution of the residual performance of 27 developed and emerging currencies.

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