Alexander, Carol; Barbosa, Andreza - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2007
This paper presents an empirical study of hedging the four largest US index exchange traded funds (ETFs). When hedging … hedging is less effective around the time of dividend payments, and that hedged portfolio returns tend to have very large … index futures. In these situations minimum variance hedging is clearly preferable to naïve hedging, although it seems to …