comprehensive estimate of foreign investors' U.S. dollar (USD) security holdings and currency hedging practices. We document four … raised their USD hedge ratio by an average of 15 percentage points, despite higher hedging costs implied by large and … persistent deviations from covered interest-rate parity. The total FX hedging demand from these sector reached $2 trillion in …

portfolio diversification--NPD) or engage in naïve buying diversification (NBD)--equally balancing values in same-day purchases …

would imply about the diversification potential across countries. For this purpose, I examine two basic groups of … group since this is the standard approach in the international diversification literature, while I study the second group … since some have argued that US-listed foreign stocks are the more natural diversification vehicle (Errunza et al (1999)). In …

Nontrivial diversification possibilities arise when a factor model describes security returns. In this paper, we …

Using an extensive new data set on U.S. and U.K.-traded closed- end funds, we examine the diversification benefits from … emerging equity markets and the extent of their integration with global capital markets. To measure diversification benefits … significant diversification benefits for the U.K. country funds, but not for the U.S. funds. The difference appears to relate to …

The benefits of international diversification have been recognized for decades. In spite of this, most investors hold … domestic equity market to be several hundred basis points higher than returns in other markets. This lack of diversification …