Risk Management
GIFT
Investment House concentrates on hedging and risk management solutions
since 1983. The firm’s dealing room has at its disposal a team
of dedicated dealers that are licensed portfolio advisors and or managers
whom are all regulated and with extensive experience in foreign exchange
dealing rooms worldwide. GIFT’s dealers act as their clients
personal foreign exchange and financial specialists, offering financial
advice, updates, solutions, trading and post trade analytical services
as well as back-office administrative and reporting functions.
GIFT
uses its in house developed management technology and has access to
the latest information and trading technology, allowing it to trade
on behalf of its clients with their banks on a level playing field. Among
its other tools GIFT’s staff use technical and fundamental analysis
of the market as well as communicating actively with its many counter
parties in banks and other financial Institutions around the world.
Trading & Hedging Services
The foreign exchange market is in perpetual
motion with markets operating 24-hours a day from Monday morning in
Australia / Asia through to Friday afternoon trade on America’s
east coast.
Keeping up to date with the worlds financial markets,
changes and conditions and the endless release of data, is a full time
job.
Corporations experiencing foreign exchange and IRS
exposure must make a strategic decision regarding how to handle their
FX and IRS
position.
Very few entities have the luxury to be able to afford real experts
in this field on their payrolls, let alone the position manager’s
software, the Forex derivatives pricing modules/software and the professional
inter-bank trading systems.
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Six Step Solution
GIFT uses its years of experience, expertise and
in-depth knowledge in the worlds financial markets to tailor-make solutions
for its clients using its – “Six Step Solution”:
1. Identify the client’s financial exposure
and risk – (including
FX fluctuations, interest rate exposure other financial exposure).
2.
Prepare appropriate strategies to hedge (or take advantage) of market
fluctuations, strategies include spots, forwards, swaps, options, combinations
and others.
3. Discuss strategies with the client and approve
the most appropriate.
4. Analyze the market and choose the appropriate
time to trade, then shop for the best price and trade appropriately.
Follow the trade once
completed.
5. Back office procedures; check the trades against
the bank confirmations before passing them onto the client.
6. After
trade services, include – Stress tests (what if scenarios),
Reporting (including valuations, month/period end), market and financial
information updates, market movements, other requests.
Institutional Trading
Active institutional clients
receive the best conditions for trading by the local banks, they offer
their clients direct access to their
dealing room and the tightest spreads they are able to give. However
all banks offer different prices at the same moment. That’s
because at any given moment every dealer has his own position and
view on the market.
In an ideal world it would be possible for clients to contact instantaneously
several different aggressive banks and ask for a quote on any FX deal.
But that’s only in an ideal world, for in practice that would
mean that the client would have to open up an account with each bank,
apply and receive trading lines with each bank, contact them all simultaneously,
arrange for inter-bank transfers and so on and so on.
Through Gift Financial Ltd. (a part of the GIFT Group) active institutional
clients have the opportunity to trade foreign exchange spot transactions
and their derivatives including forwards, swaps, options and exotic
options on a range of currency crosses with a multiple of leading
international banks, all with a single account. Essentially clients
are thus transferred
to having trading lines as wide as the leading international banks
themselves. While trading in spots client have the opportunity to
make market on trades themselves in the Inter-bank currency markets.
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Cost of Funding- Advisory Services
Since the
year 2000 GIFT has enabled its clients to benefit from natural exposures
in its balance sheet in order to either reduce its cost
of funding or Increase its rate of return using the clients own loans
and deposits.
To attain financial success in today's sophisticated
and ever-changing marketplace, it is essential to protect profitability
from the dangers
of fluctuating foreign exchange and interest rates. The different interest
rates attributed to the various currencies allow companies the opportunity
to gain through the normal activities of its business.
More and more
companies are attracted by the low interest rates in foreign currencies
as opposed to their own in order to take out loans
and reduce their interest expenses. Or alternatively are attracted
by high yielding currencies in order to place their investments or
deposits. Obviously business is not that clear cut and the actual fluctuation
between the local and foreign currency can make the interest rate differential
meaningless although often it just makes the change that much more
attractive.
GIFT uses its many years of trading experience to
utilize available FX and IRS products and their derivatives in order
to take
advantage
of financial flows, and benefit clients that are both “Borrowers” and “Lenders”.
GIFT offers a range of specialist risk management products that can
be tailored to meet its clients requirements.
This division has been
showing its clients very impressive results, while using strategies
that substantially reduce the level of risk.
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