The recent large moves in the US dollar have brought the idea of currency hedging to investor attention. Currency hedging is often ignored when discussing international equity investments but this ...

Investors rushing to protect their U.S. assets against dollar depreciation could test banks’ ability to meet demand for ...

Investing in international stocks exposes investors to currency risk, which arises from fluctuations in the exchange rate between two currencies. When an investor from one country buys stocks in a ...

Two questions about a portfolio’s currency exposure are why hedge, and how to hedge. 1. Why should I hedge currency exposure? Currency exposure is a non-trivial element of a global portfolio’s ...

This article appears courtesy of Global Investor. Here’s an opportunity for European pension funds : they, and other foreign investors, can now delegate responsibility for hedging currency exposure to ...

With time, businesses have largely become more sophisticated in using hedging as a strategy. Individual businesses can take different approaches to hedging depending on a number of factors. The Fast ...

Fixed income investors can benefit more from currency hedging than equity investors, according to research from Dimensional. The paper ‘To Hedge or Not to Hedge: A Framework for Currency Hedging ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Some investment professionals encourage using foreign stocks and bonds to diversify portfolios. Since overseas assets often don't track their U.S. counterparts closely, a globally diversified ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an ...

While the US dollar was continually getting stronger and sterling was continually getting weaker, British investors rarely needed to worry too much about currency movements. If you held an ...

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - British fund manager Henderson Global Investors is planning to launch a quantitative currency hedge fund in the coming months aimed initially at institutional investors, a ...