Corporate Hedging Toolbox: The Rates of Change
- The sharp-run up in NZ wholesale interest rates is changing the landscape facing corporate treasuries, producing NZD spot outperformance, changes in forward pricing, and higher 'carry' costs on interest rate hedging.
- These are all themes we've been expecting and we see them remaining in play over the coming quarter.
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Mike Jones
Senior Economist
Mike joined ASB in 2019 armed with almost 15 years of experience in applied macroeconomic and financial markets analysis.
Mike's career has been all about distilling the risks and opportunities of economic and financial market trends for business. Basically asking the "what does it all mean" question. Mike's enthusiasm and skill for drawing out practical, commercial insights from the murky world of economics has been honed over a relatively broad base of experience.
After spending the early part of his career on the tools at the Reserve Banks of both NZ and Australia, Mike had a lengthy stint at BNZ where he was NZ’s top-ranked currency strategist. His regular and topical macro research also saw him pick up several FX forecast accuracy gongs from Bloomberg.
Drawn in by the prospect of putting strategy into practice, Mike moved from Wellington to Auckland in 2013 to join Fonterra as GM Treasury Risk Management. In this role, Mike lead Fonterra’s macroeconomic research output, and was responsible for the strategy and execution of Fonterra’s foreign exchange, debt, and interest rate hedging programmes.
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