Setser: Shadow FX Intervention in Taiwan: Solving a 100+ billion dollar enigma (Part 2)

2019/10/07 wwchu 台灣經濟/政策評論

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser and Guest Blogger for Brad Setser

October 4, 2019

https://www.cfr.org/blog/shadow-fx-intervention-taiwan-solving-100-billion-dollar-enigma-part-2?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0

Large-scale purchases of foreign bonds have become the central flow sustaining Taiwan’s massive current account surplus and keeping the Taiwan dollar weak. The size of this flow raises the question of who supplies Taiwan’s lifers with FX hedges.

This is the second post in a series* on Taiwan’s life insurers and their private & sovereign FX hedging counterparties. It’s the product of a collaboration with S.T.W**, a market participant and friend of the blog. Printable versions of entries in this series will be available in pdf format on his site (Concentrated Ambiguity).