I'd only buy hedged if you're either willing to keep tabs on it and swap it out if/when the Canadian dollar appreciates, or if it's for a shorter time horizon.
If you're just buying and forgetting about it for 20 years or something, hedging gets expensive, as most CAD-hedged S&P ETFs lag the index by 1-1.5%. Over long periods of time that compounds into a pretty big figure. So even over just 15-20 years, you'd need the CAD to be at about $0.90 USD just to break even on the hedging losses.
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