The Investment Association (IA) has confirmed it will be launching its Volatility Managed sector on 3 April to accommodate the growing number of outcome-oriented funds currently crowding the IA Unclassified peer group.
Geopolitical uncertainty is on the rise but the Vix Index is at historic lows. Is there really still an investment case for trying to harness volatility?
True alpha is not generated from single trades, argues Pioneer’s Adam Macnulty, but is the result of a carefully built portfolio of multiple, independent strategies.
The Investment Association has unveiled a new volatility-managed sector, to deal with the swelling ranks of unclassified funds.
Sterling’s latest dramatic fall demonstrates investors’ need to manage both currency as well as equity volatility, but do the big funds deliver in mitigating these risks within your portfolios?
The collapse in productivity in developed markets as well as some emerging markets is the single most overlooked story in the global economy today, said Nordea AM’s Karsten Bierre.
When they have been knocked to the mat, boxers have been known to use as much of the count as possible to regather their wits before wading back into the fray.
Amid the political turmoil, Brazil has done well for fixed income investors, but questions remain around further volatility.
Following the turbulence of the first quarter, Eoin Murray, head of the Hermes Investment Office, believes that markets continue to be at risk of price spikes and falls, with volatility and liquidity risk being particularly concerning.
As the month of May trundles into view investors will be thinking about the traditional summer-proofing of portfolios, but the shrewdest among them may see more opportunity than danger.
With May just around the corner, a closer look at the FTSE All-Share Index during the past 30 years show that the old trading adage “sell in May” is a myth, according to JP Morgan Asset Management global market strategist Alex Dryden.
Financial markets have undergone substantial changes as a result of regulatory shifts, but according to Pimco’s global head of portfolio risk management, William de Leon, much of the volatility currently in evidence has more to do with central-bank induced uncertainty than illiquidity.
