A technical investment question....
Just wondering if I want to buy UK Government bonds directly (say via a self-managed pension fund),
1. What is the simplest process?
2. What costs are involved?
3. If I wanted to hedge, how do I go about it and what are the costs involved?
[Regarding, the hedging - say I wanted to invest €100,000 and wanted to fully protect the initial capital sum from adverse sterling movements (i.e. where sterling weakens against the euro) - what are the annual costs for such protection?]