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The Currency Leg You Never Chose

The unhedged dollar bet inside a global index fund.

10 min read12 August 2026

A European investor holding a global equity index fund has made a large, unhedged bet on the US dollar. Most of them did not intend to. Almost none of them have quantified it.

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