Currency shakeout to benefit hedge funds
Monday, October 20, 2008 : PermalinkReuters UK – Recent sharp moves in global currencies are the start of longer trends set to produce strong money-making opportunities for trend-following hedge strategies, according to Insch Capital Chief Executive Chris Cruden.
Cruden, whose Insch Interbank Currency Program is up 7.96 percent over the year to end-September before fees compared with a 27.6 percent fall in the MSCI World index, points to the rise of the Australian dollar versus the U.S. dollar between 2001 and 2008 as an example of previous long-term currency moves.
"I imagine the nature of the shakeout will produce sustained moves lasting many months if not years," said Cruden, a former director of Adam, Harding and Lueck Asset Management AHL.L, now the flagship hedge strategy of Man Group.
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