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Managing risks in international securities portfolios
Folprecht, Marek ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kováč, Michal (referee)
The bachelor´s thesis examines the gains from hedging the currency exposure from the perspectives of American and Canadian investors. It is shown that exchange rate risk is a largely nondiversifiable factor which might negatively affect the performance of equity portfolios. Therefore, it is necassary to effectively control the exchange rate risk. It is found that the effect of currency risk on total portfolio risk varies among different currency pairs depending predominantly on the correlation between equity and currency returns. For this reason, it is essential to choose a different approach for each currency pair. The hedging strategy, which is refered to as optimal currency hedging, aims at minimizing the volatility of currency hedged portfolio returns. The optimal hedge ratios for individual currencies are also estimated. Over the period from 2004 to 2015, hedging the currency exposure considerably reduced the volatility of returns in the case of American investor. From the perspective of Canadian investor, hedging the currency risk reduced the volatility of returns only to a limited degree. The reason is that Canadian dollar behaves in a pro-cyclical fashion, strenghtening when the world economy surges and weakening when the economy turns down. Therefore, foreign currency exposure tend to reduce the volatility of portfolio returns from the perspective of Canadian investor.
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Currency risk hedging demonstrated on investment portfolios
Siuda, Vojtěch ; Mandel, Martin (advisor) ; Brada, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on currency hedging in investment portfolio. At first are explained the terms currency risk and currency exposure and then the instruments for currency hedging are described. In the practical part of this thesis is reader acquainted with the crown class and the dollar class of US equity mutual fund. Yields are analysed in short and long term as well as with long and short term risk. The description of the hedging technique is also included in practical part. The last chapter is dedicated to questions, when is suitable to be hedged and how to find the ideal hedge ratio for minimizing the currency risk. Considered is also the possibility of using currency movements as an element of investment strategy.
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Currency Hedging Using Financial Derivates
Slavík, Tomáš ; Dvořák, Petr (advisor) ; Tuček, Miroslav (referee)
Thesis "Currency Hedging Using Financial Derivates" provides comprehensive survey about hedge derivatives contracts from view of real datas. The principle is whole life of derivates contracts - from the beginning of contract settlement to expiration of agreement. Thesis shows hedge relation with czech accounting law and provides different views on potential problems and shows possible improvements in this topic.
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Usage of financial derivatives for currency hedging in Czech Republic
Karas, Jiří ; Málek, Jiří (advisor)
Basic motive for the work comes out of the hypothesis of growing need of non-financial Czech companies to manage foreign exchange risk, which is demonstrated by foreign trade development. In the work, there are also specified basic species of entrepreneurial risks. Main attention of the writing is paid to currency hedging by finance derivatives, like futures, forwards, swaps and options. Single chapters are dedicated to their basic characteristics and to their function logic and, above all, to alternatives of their usage for currency hedging in different situations at Czech nonfinancial companies.
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