Discover how futures contracts can hedge against market risks, protect investments, and stabilize portfolios with effective financial risk management strategies.

Optimization of forward points (the difference between the spot and the forward rate for a currency pair) enables companies to take advantage of these differences, which are driven by the interaction ...

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Bond futures are financial derivative contracts that obligate the buyer and seller to transact a specified bond at a predetermined price and date. These contracts allow market participants to ...

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 ...

Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more ...

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares provides a natural hedge against market corrections and potential recessions in the U.S. economy. EDV's price typically rises when interest ...

Few U.S. banks protected themselves against rising interest rates during the Federal Reserve’s monetary-tightening campaign last year, according to a research paper that says unhedged securities ...

If there is one topic that is being discussed repeatedly at defined benefit pension scheme trustee meetings, it is the impact of falling gilt yields. Pension schemes are required to value their ...

The Marks and Spencer Pension Scheme has swung into surplus, thanks to a combination of outperformance of return-seeking assets and full hedging of interest rate risk, the company said last week. The ...