This study examines the hedging effectiveness of the Silver Bullet Fund created by AuAg Funds. The Silver Bullet Fund will be examined alongside a financial proxy and an industry proxy, to assess whether to hedge or not during turbulent times.  

The study examines the hedging performance of the Silver Bullet fund by utilizing a static model to capture the behavior of a crisis at a specific point in time, alongside a dynamic model to capture the behavior of crises over time. Further research suggests that several other econometric models can be used for analysis with the same purpose. However, the evidence in this study suggests that a hedged portfolio outperforms an unhedged portfolio during crisis for the S&P500 Index, while for the STOXX 600 Europe Automobiles & Parts Index should not be hedged during the crisis under the static assumption. Moreover, there are also occasions where the standardized returns for the three variables lies outside of the confidence intervals. The study also finds that under the dynamic model, the financial proxy Hedge Ratios during all three crises, compared to the industry proxy, sees the highest value of the Hedge Ratios, however, presenting low hedging effectiveness.