Ultimately, to understand
the personal currency exposure of your own investements, you have to not only understand which countries the stocks in the fund, or represented by the ETF are located in; you also have understand the currency of the revenue and expenses of each of those companies, and finally you also have to understand any hedging strateiges each of those companies are employing.
Not exact matches
My
personal preference is to invest directly in US - listed ETFs without hedging
currency exposure because in my opinion, hedging is simply chasing performance after the Canadian dollar has run up significantly.
The fund to use to capture the foreign
currency exposure is a matter of
personal preference.
Seek
personal advice about the opportunities and risks of adding some
exposure to international bonds, property and shares, including the extra risks of fluctuations in
currency exchange rates.
[And this is increasingly true for me & many other investors too — as people become more mobile in their
personal / professional lives, it can become extremely difficult to even figure what one's home
currency /
exposures actually are... Of course, people in emerging & frontier markets are already long familiar with that kind of problem!]