Courtney Haynes leads the investor and consultant relations and business development team and is responsible for distribution of the firm’s investment capabilities to investors and investment consultants Courtney joined the firm in 2006 as an investment professional Prior to joining Mesirow she was a capital markets associate at Aquion Partners Previously she was an investment banking analyst in…

Analyzing pandemic economic effects and foreign exchange rate movements, Abstract This paper offers an extensive analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19 and the effects of the pandemic on several currencies We then explain a predictive model that utilizes COVID-19 indicators to generate FX trading signals Over a portfolio of 28 currency pairs the model applies a simple linear regression to the number of daily new COVID-19 cases in each country to mainly short the…