MANAGING CURRENCY RISK

For multinational companies that want personalized services, quick responses and objective recommendations rather than prepackaged products, our advisory services are tailored to each organization's specific requests.

By phone, written reports or in person, we can:

• Solve your immediate foreign exchange problems and develop procedures for handling similar situations when they occur.

• Review your strategies and tactics for managing foreign currency receivables and payables, pricing, sourcing, budgeting, exposure management and long-term planning.

• Analyze hedging strategies, including forwards, options and zero-cost collars for reducing your foreign exchange risks.

• Determine your interest-rate opportunities and risks associated with borrowing and investing.

• Evaluate or help write your policies and procedures for managing currency and interest rate risks. We can define exposures, responsibilities, controls, protection possibilities and measure results.

• Analytical Briefings about the latest and anticipated market developments and the outlook for currencies, interest rates and economic and political conditions in countries in which you are most interested. Discussions can be by phone or in your office as frequently as required, supplemented with written reports upon request.

• Special Projects:  Brief or extensive research can be undertaken upon request.

ENHANCED FORECASTING

Since 1981, we have provided a full range of international forecasting services that supplement FX4casts.com. You also benefit from the insight we gain by evaluating the currency, interest rate and economic forecasts for 50 countries received monthly from 90 organizations worldwide. We can meet your specific business needs in any of the following areas:

• Economic Developments: Historical data and forecasts for growth, inflation, trade, current accounts and other major economic and financial variables for any timeframe and any country.

• Currencies:  The most likely outlook, risk possibilities and protection strategies for any major or minor currency and any time horizon.

• Interest Rates:  Short and long-term interest rate forecasts for all available maturities in any country.

• Market Conditions:  Analysis of demographics, per capita income, foreign regulations and other variables to determine marketing possibilities.

Dr. Teck has been consulting with multinational companies since 1981. He has also been publisher and editor-in-chief of FX4casts.com and its predecessors the Financial Times Currency Forecaster and Global Investor's Digest since 1984.

At Chemical Bank, Alan was Director of Financial Consulting Services for more than a decade. He was responsible for profit centers in New York City, London, Brussels and Hong Kong and consulted with many companies throughout the world. Previously he was senior financial analyst at Celanese, assistant treasurer at Macmillan, economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and security analyst at Hornblower & Weeks.

Alan earned his masters and doctorate degrees from the Department of Economics at Columbia University, his undergraduate degree from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and completed the executive management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.