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 ...

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 ...

In an environment of global inflation and rising interest rates, advisors and investors should be aware of how changes in currency exchange rates can affect their international investments. A recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the recent FSA authorisation of currency hedging for multiple share classes, UK fund managers face further opportunities to expand the distribution of sterling based funds. Hugo Cox examines the ...

With the dollar ranking as one of the best-performing currencies in the world this year, investors are getting a refresher regarding the benefits of currency hedged exchange traded funds. Still, some ...

Morgan Stanley analysts led by David Adams say they expect Europeans to increase the currency hedging on their $3.6 trillion worth of unhedged assets, and that should lift the euro to $1.25 and beyond ...

The U.S. dollar has experienced a notable decline in value this year relative to a broad basket of foreign currencies. This depreciation has meaningfully affected the investment returns of U.S. based ...

It matters less how international funds hedge the currency on their new investments into U.S. assets, than the hedging ratios ...