In this paper we analyze currency risk for an insurance company in the context of capital adequacy. We discuss the difference between translation and structural currency risk and show how a zero-currency-risk benchmark can be chosen in a natural way. We show that by aggregating risk in a...

In the work of the Basel Committee there has been a tradition of distinguishing market from credit risk and to treat both categories independently in the calculation of risk capital. In practice positions in a portfolio depend simultaneously on both market and credit risk factors. In this case,...

Fixing the investment horizon, the returns to currency carry trades decrease as the maturity of the foreign bonds increases. The local currency term premia, which increase with the maturity, offset the currency risk premia. The time-series predictability of foreign bond returns in dollars...