Investor interest in currencies is increasing.

The currency market dwarfs all other markets, trading over $4 trillion per day. The US Dollar dominates that trading, and the big four are the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen and the Pound.  The Australian Dollar, the Canadian Dollar and the Swiss Franc make up the second rank by volume.

Some of the reasons for increased retail investors’ interest in currencies are: (1) retail spot currency trading platforms becoming more available, (2) the US Dollar faces major challenges as a result of monetary policy actions since the 2008 crash, (3) growing talk, and some action, among sovereign funds concerning diversification of holdings away from the Dollar, and (4) perhaps the search for less correlated assets.

Given these and other factors, it makes sense for investors to become more aware of the choices that are available to them to include pure currency exposures in their portfolios.

Portfolio Vehicles:

Investors have

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This is just a short post - to tie in some loose ends I have. I wrote yesterday about Barclays Global Capital. I have written twice about a fraudulent hedge fund (New World Capital management) - see here and here. Barclays has developed quite a business marketing hedge funds. They compile a ranking of hedge funds. Here is the current ranking of their currency funds. Now here is my sting: at one stage New World Capital Mangagement was ranked Number One on Barclays Hedge fund rankings.