Should I hedge currency risks with an ETF investment?

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Anyone who buys foreign stocks always has an exchange rate risk in their portfolio. Our reader is therefore wondering whether he should resort to a variant with currency hedging when investing in an index fund in the MSCI World global stock index. ETF analyst Jan Altmann explains why this choice usually doesn’t pay off for private investors – and gives tips on how to find the right product in the index fund jungle.