At Record, our principal focus is on currency management and developing a deep understanding of the risk
and reward opportunities in currency markets. Record Inc. operates from New York and provides limited
advice to clients in relation to currency, the effects this may have on their portfolios, and currency
management strategies. Record Inc. also offers discretionary portfolio management services for clients.
Record Inc. provides advice in the form of market newsletters and advice on an intermittent or periodic
basis either in response to a client request or market event.
Record Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Record plc.
Record was founded in 1983 by Neil Record and is a regulated provider of currency management services.
Record Currency Management (US) Inc.(Record Inc.), Record Currency Management Limited (Record),
Record Currency Management (Switzerland) GmbH (Record Switzerland) and Record Asset Management
GmbH are 100% owned by their parent holding company Record plc. Record plc is listed on the Main Market
of the London Stock Exchange since our IPO in 2007.
Our corporate and regulatory structure is shown on the following diagram and tables:
Record plc’s ownership structure as at March 31, 2023 is as follows:
Shareholder group % shares owned
Record plc directors 37%
Other Record Group employees 6%
Other investors 57%
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Advisory Services
Record provides investment advisory and implementation services to its clients of appropriate
categorization. The specific services provided by Record to a particular client depends upon the
investment objectives and restrictions, investment instrument limitations and guidelines agreed with the
client, as set forth in the documents governing Record’s agreement with the client.
Record provides investment advice to a sub-set of Record Currency Management clients in the form of
managed accounts for institutional type accounts (including without limitation banks, pension funds,
endowments, foundations and family offices) and funds under the laws of a country outside of the
United States.
Record provides advices in relation to services provided by its affiliate and the various types of currency
mandates provided to the sub-set of clients:
(a) Passive currency hedging
Passive hedging removes a fixed proportion of currency risk, both upside and downside. Record’s Passive
Hedging programs are designed to minimize transaction costs and to make the resultant cash flows
easier to manage. We offer additional services to target opportunistic value through active tenor
management. Record also offers certain individual component parts of its passive hedging offering on
their own or in combination to achieve the Client’s specific objectives as set out in the Investment
Management Agreement. Record currently offers its Passive Hedging as a segregated mandate.
(b) Dynamic currency hedging
Dynamic hedging varies the size of the hedge through time depending on the price path of the exchange
rate, aiming to participate in the upside (i.e. base currency appreciation) and protect against the
downside (i.e. base currency depreciation), in accordance with the investment strategy of the mandate.
Record currently offers its Dynamic Hedging as a segregated mandate.
(c) Signal currency hedging
Signal hedging varies the size of the hedge through time, taking into account exchange rate movements,
currency over- and under- valuations, and relative interest rates to determine the size of the hedge.
Signal hedging aims to participate in the upside and protect against the downside. Record currently
offers its Signal Hedging strategy as a segregated mandate.
(d) Currency for return
Record currently has a suite of seven currency for return strategies being Carry, Value, Momentum,
Range-Trading, Emerging Markets, Developed Market Classification and Emerging Market Classification.
Record’s investment philosophy is underpinned by a belief in the transparent exploitation of well-
understood, persistent risk premia and inefficiencies observed in the FX market.
Carry is the empirical observation that high interest rate currencies tend to outperform lower interest
rate currencies over the medium-term.
Value is the observation
that over the long-term currencies will revert to fair value, such that
undervalued currencies will appreciate and vice versa.
Momentum is the observation that currencies tend to trend, appreciating after a prior appreciation and
vice versa.
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Range-Trading is the observation that currency volatility tends to be elevated in the short-term relative
to the medium-term.
Holding Emerging Market currencies seeks to benefit from real exchange rate appreciation as a result of
the economic convergence of emerging markets to developed markets, as well as offering higher
positive real yields.
Developed Market Classification uses a quantitative machine learning model to systematically allocate
to various currency factor groups based on their perceived ability to explain outturn G10 vs. USD
currency moves.
Emerging Market Classification uses a quantitative machine learning model to systematically allocate to
various currency factor groups according to their perceived ability to explain outturn EM vs USD currency
moves.
Additionally, Record is able to offer combinations of these strategies under a Multi-Strategy approach
that seeks to target a diversified source of return from the currency markets through a combination of
market inefficiencies and risk premia. By combining multiple return drivers, returns are targeted from a
variety of market conditions, reducing the correlation of a currency program to other asset classes.
(e) Ancillary services
(i) Cash Management – Clients with one of the above services (a-d) or on a standalone basis can have
cash management services and/or equitization services relating to a quantum of cash set aside to
support the currency program or to enable them to achieve specific objectives.
(ii) Currency Execution – Record offers unconflicted fiduciary currency execution services in currency spot
and forward transactions.
(iii) Currency Audit – we examine and analyze foreign exchange deals done for a Client by its third-party
providers and compare that performance against our in-house and / or third-party databases of
historical currency rates to see whether excess costs have been incurred, and give advice on how to
avoid them in the future.
(iv) Collateral Management – where employed to perform collateral management services for our Clients,
we manage and monitor daily FX margin requirements and collateral, either due to a regulatory
requirement or the Client’s choice of collateralized bank lines. Our offering includes a full spectrum of
services, including margin determination, processing and movement as well as helping in any
operational interaction with counterparty banks (e.g. CSA negotiation) and/or an FX prime broker.
(v) Provision of signals – for the Client to trade (or have traded) on their own or their clients’ accounts.
(vi) Partnerships – Record acts as a referral agent for specific third-party investment management
strategies.
(vii) ESG – Record offer opt-in ESG services, including an ESG tilt on our EM strand of the multi-strategy
product, an ESG counterparty screening execution option, and are about to launch a sustainable
finance fund that seeks to incorporate sustainable outcomes into the strategy in line with the UN SDGs.
We are looking to extend our ESG integration across our wider product offerings in line with client
demand. We have an ESG policy on our website which maps this out in more detail.
Our advice is limited to the types of investments stated above.
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Portfolio Management Services
Record Inc. provides discretionary for-return services for clients in the liquid alternatives space; the
strategies employ cash and derivative instruments across diverse strategies and asset classes in pursuit
of alpha.
AUME
As a currency and asset manager, Record Inc. manages only the impact of foreign exchange and not the
underlying assets; therefore its ‘assets under management’ are notional rather than real. To distinguish
this from the AUM of conventional asset managers, Record Inc. uses the concept of Assets under
Management Equivalents (AUME) and by convention this is quoted in US dollars.
AUME as of March 31, 2022 is $15,528 million.
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