Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

Floating rate funds primarily invest in financial instruments with variable interest rates, such as loans and bonds. Unlike fixed-rate investments, the interest rates of the assets in floating rate ...

This collection of essays came out of a conference that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the final collapse of the Bretton Woods system of pegged but adjustable exchange rates. This collapse, ...

Returns in floating rate notes are driven by two main components: short-term interest rates and credit spreads. What Drives Returns in Floating Rate Notes? Corporate floating rate notes (FRNs) are ...

Argentina’s new monetary-exchange rate regime, currently transitioning towards a system of currency competition, a floating exchange rate and inflation targeting –similar to the frameworks in place in ...

Floating rate securities offer investors strong, above-average yields with little in interest rate risk. There are several ETFs focusing on these securities. Three stand out, and offer strong ...

Starting in the 1990s – and faster since 2000 – emerging-market economies floated their currencies, hoping to insulate themselves from external shocks and gain the ability to set interest rates ...

The move, which economists deem positive, is a prelude to needed monetary reform. When Bola Tinubu was inaugurated as president of Nigeria on May 29, he noted that the country’s monetary policy needed ...

Zimbabwe stopped short of free-floating its currency in the battle to end weeks of exchange rate volatility that has fueled the country’s latest economic turmoil. The Zimbabwe dollar’s crash on both ...