AT a time when global power dynamics are undergoing a seismic shift, Pakistan has to meticulously calibrate its foreign policy, taking into account its needs and interests. Pakistan had been allied ...

For now, Southwest’s nixing of its fuel hedging program tunes out the risk of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear ...

Southwest Airlines Co. will end its long-held policy of hedging against swings in fuel prices, marking a pullback of one of ...

Dated: 28 February, 2025 IRDAI (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”) permitted insurers to deal in financial derivatives in 2004 through Guidelines on Fixed Income Derivatives vide Circular No.

Amid rising challenges from the Trump administration’s on-again-off-again tariffs, finance chiefs are facing intensifying ...

Regulator Irdai on Friday permitted insurers to use equity derivatives to hedge their portfolios, a move aimed at reducing risk in a volatile capital market. Insurance Development and Regulatory ...

Under the current regulatory framework, IRDAI allows insurers to deal in Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives in the form of Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs), Interest Rate Swaps and Exchange Traded Interest ...

“The hedging cost is largely the difference in policy rates between the US and Japan,” wrote the strategists. “As a result, more BoJ hikes would further bring down the hedging cost.

While there is little visibility into the aggregate level of corporate hedging activity ... that they were concerned about the impact of policy changes on currency values," he said.

Indonesia and Turkiyè are already navigating the choppy waters of global politics by adopting the hedging policy. As such, they have maintained reciprocatory ties with both the US and China ...

Before taking exposure to equity derivatives, insurers have to put in place a Board-approved Hedging Policy, said the IRDAI.