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To describe: Methods to handle local market risk and currency risk of investing in Japanese stock.
Introduction: Market risk is occurring when there is fluctuation but currency risk means devaluation of the currency. A client wants to invest some money in Japanese market without taking risk of cost and currency but this investment only for some period of time.
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To describe: Why the above mentioned methods to control risk in Japanese market is not so effective.
Introduction: Controlling of risk means protect the investment from the loss. To hedge the cost and currency risk in Japanese market, selling of index futures is profitable but there is some disadvantages also like contract size, management issues.

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