But there is no comparable gain to be had from diversifying your currency exposure.
To protect against inflation, he's going for domestic and international real estate, natural resource funds and currency exposure.
Chinese companies seeking to expand their pool of potential foreign investors could do so without fretting about foreign-currency exposure.
We still own Japanese debt, but we have hedged the currency exposure of our entire Japanese government bond position.
When the baht initially slipped off its moorings in July, Hana Electronics, a Thai exporter, chose not to hedge its currency exposure.
But much of what they borrow has been invested in China, so part of their debt ought to count in China's foreign-currency exposure.
Such bonds have high yields, are typically issued by countries with strong economic fundamentals and are immune to the price swings caused by foreign-currency exposure.
When they become available in physical form, Russian savers may start hedging their currency exposure, by stuffing their mattresses with euros as well as greenbacks.
Measured in dollars, the market is up just 5.3% over the past three months, although some investors could have done better if they hedged their currency exposure.
The problem for many companies is they only consider their currency exposure on a quarter over quarter basis over which the change may not be so substantial.
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The Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund, which gets a FORBES grade of D in up markets but scores an A in down markets, hedges its foreign currency exposure.
You can get the currency exposure either by purchasing short-term paper issued by the flaky government in question or by taking a long position in the futures market for that currency.
While investing in a global company based in Japan could be fundamentally like investing in a big U.S.-based competitor, only one of those stocks has currency exposure to a U.S.-based investor.
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Koester is almost evangelical when it comes to merits of managing currency exposure, as you might expect from someone whose business is based on helping companies understand and handle such risks.
However, he argues that the return on investment for a company like IBM or a similarly large business can be so substantial merely from utilizing software to get real-time visibility into their currency exposure.
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This includes placing ceilings on banks' foreign-currency exposure.
Investors need the local currency debt exposure to get the high yield.
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Toyota Japan told the BBC that it wants to minimise its "currency risk exposure", but has not set a date for the change-over yet.
Japanese automakers say their companies are seeking to minimize exposure to currency swings by building plants in North America.
We welcome opportunities to consult with those who want a better idea of the impact of such phenomena and desire to reduce their exposure to currency fluctuations and similar threats.
Sun and co-authors Lu Zheng of UC Irvine and Ashley Wang of the Federal Reserve studied the returns of some 5, 000 hedge funds from 1994 to 2011, adjusting for the funds' stock and bond exposure, currency bets, credit spreads and other factors that could account for performance.
But that's not the same as paying cold hard currency for specific levels of exposure.
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Most currency investors are shying away from any exposure to Iceland, a country which has been hard hit by the lending crisis partly because it is so heavily exposed to the banking sector, which dwarfs the rest of the economy.
Simple enough, but are there other ETFs with which to get strong-dollar exposure without directly being involved in the currency market?
The Stoxx 600 banks index was up 0.5%, despite a report that the Bank of China has suspended currency swaps with European banks that had troubling euro exposure.
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"The Singapore market has shown that it's becoming far more liquid, and people also like having an exposure to the Singapore dollar, " a currency that has been favored by investors who like the city-state's political and economic stability, Mr. Crockett said.
The impact appears largely beneficial though, says Wolfgang Koester, chief executive and currency strategist at Fireapps, a software firm specializing in detecting foreign exchange exposure.
Therefore, I believe that gold offers protection from central bank currency debasement and that adding a float shrink strategy can help diversify your portfolio and give you exposure to the substantial corporate profit distributions through buybacks.
The combination ticks every box, bringing a presence in key markets for Chinese clients and exposure to a sophisticated foreign firm with skills in areas like investment banking and foreign-currency funding.
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