Institutional questions structured into context.

Understand use cases,
assess mandate questions.

Case studies show how 7orca analyses and structures typical questions raised by institutional investors in FX Management and translates them into transparent decision-making foundations. The focus is on anonymised application scenarios from FX Consulting, FX Execution, FX Structuring, FX Overlay and FX Exposure Management.

The case studies do not replace an individual assessment. They do, however, show which questions regularly become relevant in institutional mandates: benchmark definition, exposure analysis, execution structure, hedging logic, liquidity, governance and reporting.
 

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Case studies in institutional FX Management.

FX Consulting

Deriving an appropriate FX benchmark.


An institutional pension provider required a robust basis for steering its foreign currency risks.
The case study shows how 7orca, as part of a structured FX benchmark workshop, developed a quantitative decision-making basis reflecting the portfolio and governance context.

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FX Execution

Execution of an FX hedging options portfolio.

Institutional FX Execution requires more than the execution of individual transactions. 

The case study shows how trading instructions, option structures, broker access, trade management and post-trade processes can be transferred into a robust execution setup.

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FX Structuring

Developing an FX hedging strategy for a real estate fund.

Complex portfolio structures require a hedging logic that takes risk, liquidity, cost and participation objectives into account together.

The case study shows how 7orca analyses institutional requirements and translates them into a structured FX strategy.

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FX Overlay

Holistic FX Overlay for a complex multi-asset portfolio.

Investors hold FX positions across liquid and illiquid asset classes that were previously managed in isolation and without a consistent methodology. The case study shows how 7orca uses the Holistic FX Overlay to derive the strategic hedge ratio for each currency from the characteristics of the asset classes.

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Private Markets – case study FX Exposure Management.

Analyse Private Markets investments,
determine economic FX exposure.

In Private Markets, the reported fund currency may only provide an incomplete view of the actual economic FX exposure. Fund structures, valuation cycles, capital calls, distributions, natural hedges and existing hedges at manager or fund level can influence the relevant currency position.

The case study shows how 7orca uses its FX look-through to bring together relevant information from fund, manager and mandate structures, consolidate economic FX exposures and create a robust basis for further currency steering.

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Practice report: currency overlay for an insurance company.

Understanding the motivation,
following the implementation.

Complementing the anonymised case studies, a practice report in the German insurance journal Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen documents a real mandate: in 2020, SV SparkassenVersicherung mandated 7orca as its dedicated currency overlay manager for all FX risks following a comprehensive provider due diligence. 

The article examines the motivation for implementing a central currency overlay.

- German-language article in Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen, issue 20/2022 -

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Discuss case studies,
assess mandate-specific questions.

A personal discussion provides the basis for assessing the individual starting position, existing FX structures and potential approaches to currency management.

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