This article aims to analyze whether investing in international assets, and fluctuations in their own currencies, allow the possibility of structuring diversified investment portfolios that would not only maximize the expected return, but also minimize risk. For this,it is evaluated the impact of currency risk on the profitability of investment portfolios in the stock indexes in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru from the point of view 6 investors (one American and five located in each of these countries) during the period 2002–2014.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.15