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My two cents on Currency considerations
Currency Considerations
- Returns are affected by local currency and currency correlations
- Currency risk only slightly modifies the investment risk because
1. is about half of foreign equity risk
2. has built in diversification effects
3. can be hedged
4. can be diversified across many porfolio exposures
Return on foreign asset in USD = (1+Return in LC)(1+%change in foreign Currency) - 1
Return Variance in USD = Return variance in LC + Variance of Exchange rate + 2x S.D of local currency returnxS.D foreign Exchangex correlation between the LC and exchange
S.D of foreign Asset in USD < (S.D of LC + S.D of exchange)
The above statement is true as long the foreign returns and currency are not perfectly correlated
Contribution of Currency Risk = S.D of Returns in USD - S.D of returns in LC
And one important point to note
- Currency risk low correlation with the asset diversifies some of the currency risk away |
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