Hedging a useful tool to muffle currency storms

The Boston Globe | October 4, 1992| | Copyright

Investors in one type of mutual fund that was supposed to provide good income and a stable share price went through quite a shock last month. As currency wars raged through Europe, funds that own foreign notes and bonds lost 2 percent of their value in the heaviest weeks of currency trading and interest rate maneuvers by European central banks.

Meanwhile, funds investing in foreign stock markets had their share of turmoil, too. The share price, or net asset value of the T. Rowe Price Europe fund, for example, fell 21 cents on Sept. 9, rose 21 cents on Sept. 17 and rose another 14 cents on ...

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