What are the best investment strategies in currency markets?

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Derek Taylor, manager of the Host Capital Global Currency fund, explains the different types of currency strategies investors could consider.

It has been a memorable year for investors. Quantitative easing has sent US equity markets soaring, with the rest of the world playing catch-up. In Japan, ‘Abenomics’ has resulted in gigantic gains in the Nikkei and a long overdue weakening of the Japanese yen. But this has come about by a loosening of Japanese monetary policy, the like of which has never been anticipated before. China has proved to be another story in itself. With the slowdown in Chinese growth, has come a reversal of the booming emerging market economies, coupled with commodity prices heading south at a rapid rate o...

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