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      Enhanced FX Carry

       

       

        

      Objective

      • Millennium Global’s Enhanced FX Carry strategy offers a highly liquid currency strategy that seeks to provide attractive total returns via the capture of renewed positive interest rate differentials available across G10 currencies.

      Key Premise

      • Academic literature is clear that the FX Carry trade has had statistically and economically significant positive excess returns in the majority of the history of floating exchange rates up until the Global Financial Crisis (‘GFC’).
      • The post-GFC era was characterised by interest rate repression, excessive liquidity provision and the elimination of the FX Cary opportunity set via the adoption of unconventional monetary policy globally. This period was an aberration in economic and financial history and has now drawn to a close.
      • We have now embarked upon a new regime in global markets involving a sharp rise in interest rates and a widening of yield differentials resulting in a renewed attractive investment environment for the “FX Carry” factor.

      Approach

      • In G10 FX, passive approaches involve mechanically buying the highest yielding currencies and selling the lowest yielding currencies.
      • The disadvantage of this passive approach is that it takes no account of the potential to adjust exposure weightings to improve returns nor addresses the risk of infrequent but large losses.
      • The Enhanced FX Carry approach includes refinements with the aim of improving both the risk and return characteristics of the strategy.
      • Return Enhancement: Adjusting FX Carry currency weights using signals from our proprietary quantitative models
      • Drawdown mitigation: Use of a “FX volatility switch” to reduce carry exposure during high volatility regimes.

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