If I want to purchase bonds from countries such as Brazil, Russia, Indonesia etc. how would I go about doing it? Can the individual do deals like this, or do you need to be in with an institution?
One of our former Treas Sec. under the prior admin had a bunch of foreign govvies dislosed under his Financial Disclosure statement prior to appointment (2004 or so). I imagine it would depend upon your broker. There is an ETF tracking foreign govies but I forget its call sign. Pimco has some mutual funds that do the same thing and are not dollar hedged.