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Naive vs Minimum Variance Hedge Sub components of Variance decomposition

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Naive hedge - only hedging currency risk of the principal amount and not change in principal Minimum variance hedging - Hedging both Sub components Transaction component - hedging currency risk of principal Economic component - heding currency risk of total portfolio return

drk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Naive hedge - only hedging currency risk of the > principal amount and not change in principal > > Minimum variance hedging - Hedging both > > Sub components > > Transaction component - hedging currency risk of > principal > Economic component - heding currency risk of total > portfolio return Fo shizzle

Agree with meaning of naive hedge above Minimum variance hedge is the hedge required based on correlations of the stock returns and the currency returns = 1 + (Cov (stock returns, currency returns)/ squared standard deviation of currency returns)