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Impact of Foreign Exchange Risk on International Portfolios

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  • Andrei Tudor Stancu

    (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the impact of foreign exchange risk on international investments such as well diversified portfolios of assets. The centre part of this study is the Value at Risk (VaR) model, computed with the variance-covariance approach and assuming non-normality of returns and conditional volatility. The analysis is made on relative VaR (RVaR), the most important type of VaR, with a time horizon of 1 week and a 95% confidence level. The results indicate that currency movements have a major impact of on international portfolios, a finding that is supported by the unpredictable nature of FX rates and their nonexistent correlation with foreign equity returns. Also, establishing a general rule regarding currency risk will be of great use when dealing with hedge instruments.

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  • Andrei Tudor Stancu, 2010. "Impact of Foreign Exchange Risk on International Portfolios," Romanian Economic Journal, Department of International Business and Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, vol. 13(37), pages 179-203, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:rej:journl:v:13:y:2010:i:37:p:179-203
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    1. Ahmad Ahmadpour Kasgari & Seyyed Hasan Salehnezhad & Fatemeh Ebadi, 2013. "A Review of Bankruptcy and its Prediction," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 3(4), pages 274-277, October.
    2. Doan Van Dinh & Guangming Gong, 2013. "Applied Financial Mathematical Model for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Exchange Rate," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 3(4), pages 254-273, October.

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    Keywords

    currency risk; value-at-risk; Cornish-Fisher approximation; EWMA; component VaR; future contracts;
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    JEL classification:

    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange

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