“What these people don’t fully appreciate is that unless you hedge with an MSCI World option, you are still leaving yourself exposed to some of the complex risks of the MSCI Index underlying.

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“What these people don’t fully appreciate is that unless you hedge with an MSCI World option, you are still leaving yourself exposed to some of the complex risks of the MSCI Index underlying.

--Simon Carter, European head of equity derivatives strategy at Deutsche Bank in London, on the dangers of hedging with proxy options rather than MSCI options when hedging an MSCI underlying index.

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