I understand the rationale for
dynamic hedges because of how currencies behave — they tend to follow trends.
We write the path - dependent payoff function above in terms of an equivalent static payoff because there is evidence that the static hedge of a portfolio with path - dependent options is preferred over
a dynamic hedging because of lower transaction costs (Tompkins, 2002).
Not exact matches
Now, when it comes to picking a currency -
hedged ETF, we tend to eschew
dynamic - type ETFs
because we prefer static
hedges.
The promise of currency -
hedging is especially alluring in the case of US stocks
because investors would like the good (quality US companies in
dynamic sectors not available in the Canadian market) without the bad (everyone «knows» the US dollar is going down the toilet).