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问题如下:
Kamala Gupta, a currency management consultant, is hired to evaluate the performance of two portfolios. Portfolio A and Portfolio B are managed in the United States and performance is measured in terms of the US dollar (USD). Portfolio A consists of British pound (GBP) denominated bonds and Portfolio B holds euro (EUR) denominated bonds.
Gupta calculates a 19.5% domestic-currency return for Portfolio A and 0% domestic-currency return for Portfolio B.
The fund manager of Portfolio B believes
that setting up a full currency hedge requires a simple matching of the current
market value of the foreign-currency exposure in the portfolio with an equal
and offsetting position in a forward contract.
Explain how the hedge, as described by
the fund manager, will eventually expose the portfolio to currency risk. 选项: 解释: In practice, matching the current market
value of the foreign-currency exposure in the portfolio with an equal and
offsetting position in a forward contract is likely to be ineffective over time
because the market value of foreign-currency assets will change with market
conditions. A static hedge (i.e., an unchanging hedge) will tend to accumulate
unwanted currency exposures as the value of the foreign-currency assets change.
This will result in a mismatch between the market value of the foreign-currency
asset portfolio and the nominal size of the forward contract used for the
currency hedge (resulting in currency risk). For this reason, the portfolio
manager will generally need to implement a dynamic hedge by rebalancing the
portfolio periodically. 中文解析: 在实务中,使用远期合约进行对冲时,约定的合约规模是期初时投资组合的规模,但这随着时间的推移将会变得无效,因为需要对冲的外币资产的市场价值是会随着市场条件而变化的,因此对冲的规模也应该随之变化。 静态套期保值(即不变套期保值)往往会随着外币资产价值的变化而累积不必要的货币风险。这将导致外币资产组合的市场价值与用于货币对冲的远期合约的名义规模之间的错配(导致货币风险)。由于这个原因,投资组合经理通常需要通过定期重新平衡投资组合来实现动态对冲。
The fund manager is doing a static hedge and overlook the risk of change of size of position. The fund manager of Portfolio B believes that setting up a full currency hedge requires a simple matching of the current market value of the foreign-currency exposure in the portfolio with an equal and offsetting position in a forward contract. By only hedge amount of current market value, if the market value changed during the hedging period, exposure of hedging would be increase. So we need to use dynamic hedge to adjust the market value exposure.