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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 ...

Fifth Third reports middle market firms are increasingly adopting long-term currency and commodity hedging strategies to ...

Given the US dollar’s recent slump, investors have finally started reaping rewards from international diversification. A big part of that was driven by currency movements: When the dollar is weak, the ...

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 ...

Swiss pension funds are reassessing foreign currency hedging for US dollar-denominated assets and gold, while largely ...

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 ...

Are there special hedging provisions for section 988 transactions? Yes. In addition to the business hedging rules I address in our earlier Q&A with Andie series,[1] a special hedging provision is ...

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 ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - International firms are spending more time at the highest levels discussing how to hedge currency risk, particularly euro-denominated earnings and transactions, in ...

SEOUL, March 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's state-run pension fund, the world's third-largest, is conducting strategic foreign exchange hedging operations, supplying dollars in the market as the won ...