Hedging is a technique used to reduce or fully mitigate a risk exposure. Hedging is a commonplace practice in business, finance, investment management, and even everyday life. In a financial setting, ...

Comprising over 20% of the MSCI EAFE Index, Japanese markets, as measured by the MSCI Japan Index, are breaking out to new all-time highs. This fact underlies one of our key views about how investors ...

Markets don’t move in straight lines. Even the strongest trends can stall or reverse without warning, which is why many traders focus as much on managing risk as they do on finding opportunities. One ...

Hedging has been around for quite some time. With time, businesses have largely become more sophisticated in using hedging as a strategy. Individual businesses can take different approaches to hedging ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

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 ...

Some investment professionals encourage using foreign stocks and bonds to diversify portfolios. Since overseas assets often don't track their U.S. counterparts closely, a globally diversified ...

Veteran hedge fund manager John Taylor describes one of his favourite Gary Larson cartoons, where one vulture sitting on an animal carcass says to another as more descend: "good friends flying in from ...