EFTA Document EFTA01459056

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Target prices are inherently imprecise and a product of the analyst's judgment. The financial instruments discussed in this report may not be suitable for all investors and investors must make their own informed investment decisions. Prices and availability of financial instruments are subject to change vrithout notice and investment transactions can load to losses as a result of price fluctuations and other factors. If a financial instrument is denominated in a currency other than an investor's currency. a change in exchange rates may adversely affect the investment. Past performance is not necessarily Indicative of future results. Unless otherwise indicated, prices are current as of the end of the previous trading session, and are sourced from local exchanges via Reuters, Bloomberg and other vendors. Data is sourced from Deutsche Bank. subject companies, and in some cases. other parties. Macroeconomic fluctuations often account for most of the risks associated with exposures to instruments that promise to pay fixed or variable interest rates. For an investor who is long fixed rate instruments (thus receiving these cash flows). increases in interest rates naturally lilt the discount factors applied to the expected cash flows and thus cause a loss. The longer the maturity of a certain cash flow and the higher the move in the discount factor, the higher will be the loss. Upside surprises In inflation, fiscal funding needs, and FX depreciation rates are among the most common adverse macroeconomic shocks to receivers. But counterparty exposure, issuer creditworthiness, client segmentation, regulation (including changes in asses holding limits for different types of investors), changes in fax policies, currency convertibility (Which may constrain currency conversion, repatriation of profits and/or the liquidation of positions), and settlement issues related to local clearing houses aro also important risk factors to be considered. The sensitivity of fixed income instruments to macroeconomic shocks may be mitigated by indexing the contracted cash flows to inflation, to FX depeeciation, or to specified interest rates - these are common in emerging markets. It is important to note that the index fixings may -- by construction - lag or mis-measure the actual move in the underlying variables they are intended to track. The choice of the proper fixing (or mimic' is particularly important in swaps markets, where floating coupon rates (i.e., coupons indexed to a typically short-dated interest rate reference index) are exchanged for fixed coupons. It is also important to acknowledge that funding in a currency that differs from the currency in which coupons are denominated carries FX risk. Naturally, options on swaps (swaptionsl also bear the risks typical to options in addition to the risks related to rates movements. Derivative transactions involve numerous risks including. among others, market, counterparty default and illiquidity risk. 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