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Currency Conversion

Updated over 2 years ago

Currency Conversion

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Written by Alex Botte
Updated over a week ago

Rev. Date May 30, 2019

For investments denominated in a currency other than your organization’s base currency, [TEST] converts the investment’s returns to returns reflecting your organization’s base currency. Steps for the conversion generally include:

  1. Transforming the investment’s returns to prices

  2. Multiplying the investment’s prices at each date by the exchange rate of the organization's base currency to the investment’s denominated currency[1]

  3. Transforming the investment’s prices back to returns

Here is an example for illustrative purposes. Say returns for an investment denominated in currency A were uploaded to [TEST]. Your organization’s base currency is B, however. [TEST] converts the investment’s returns using currency A to returns using currency B:

[1] In the case of non-daily data, [TEST] will use the end of period exchange rate. For example, monthly data will use the end of month exchange rate.

This document highlights certain aspects of this feature. As an overview, it does not discuss all material facts or assumptions. Please see Important Disclosure and Disclaimer Information.

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