currency risk

But there is still currency risk, particularly in those places with no stock market.

Some, as you can see, are European, so there is currency risk, too.

Picking the right countries might also shield against currency risk.

"That means they're selling more dollars to reduce their currency risk."

The other dimension to investing in Japan is currency risk.

Now it is borrowers who have been left to bear all the currency risk.

The activity concentrated on interest rates and foreign currency risks.

"We tend to keep a home bias to protect against currency risk," he said.

Now, the company said that it had hedged 70 percent of its currency risk for this year.

Lenders are protected from currency risk but do not earn interest.

A higher standard deviation would signal a greater currency risk.

"Whenever you buy a foreign stock in any form, there is a currency risk involved.

That way they bore no currency risk while awaiting return of their principal.

This means his currency risk is the full value of his investment.

"It shows the Japanese appetite to take out currency risk has not revived," he said.

While currency risk remains a worry, long-term exposure overseas is a must, he says.

And she went one step further, by hedging the 3 percent back into dollars to protect her from even this small currency risk.

The reason he avoids foreign bonds is currency risk.

The answer is still no, given the currency risks that you inevitably take on when investing abroad.

The heavy exposure abroad, by contrast, increases currency risk - but also potential return.

But because foreign bonds involve currency risk, they are not favored by all financial advisers.

To control currency risk, they rely on sophisticated hedging techniques.

Mutual fund buyers might consider those funds that hedge some of their currency risk.

Much of that stems from currency risk, which is created by the funds' heavy exposure abroad.

When Europe's monetary system cracked, investors in these funds learned about the currency risks.