Return of currency trends a boon for macro managers, says Insight Investment

The emergence of strong currency trends in 2013, such as the dramatic weakening of the yen and the unexpected resilience of the euro, has sparked life back into the foreign exchange market, which is good news for fund manager Insight Investment, whose currency fund uses strategies based on macro positions to generate alpha.

"There have been a lot of macro themes in the market. The preceding period had been difficult for a number of fundamental macro managers, because it had been driven by that