Last time, Monevator guest contributor Ho Simpson [1] explained what really happens when you currency hedge something in your portfolio – whilst simultaneously hammering our finance dictionary like an online Scrabble player who has bet their house on finding a 1,500-point word. This time he looks at the practical ramifications and tells us what he’s doing in his own portfolio and why, before concluding with an FX hedging jargon buster that should make Billions more intelligible if you ever commit to a rewatch.
The funny thing about passive investing is that we are all so-called macro tourists. Both the hedged and the unhedged exposures are macro trades. And many of us are running these trades without realising that’s what we’re doing.