Currency Hedge
Over the few decades, the financial markets have seen explosion in the derivative markets. Even though notable investors such as Warren Buffet has called derivatives as the weapon of Mass Destruction’’, still, derivatives accounts for a market worth trillions of dollars as companies around the world use these instruments to hedge their risk exposures. Below we have discussed three traditional derivative instruments and how they are used by the companies to hedge their foreign exchange exposure:
Currency Forwards:
Currency Forwards are the derivative contracts as part of which, one party agrees to buy a predetermined amount of one currency for a ...