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Positioning for Market Volatility Using Passive Strategies
Fluctuating periods of “risk-on” and “risk-off” mean that spikes in equity market volatility and large drawdowns are increasingly common in today’s economy. Exhibit 1 shows events throughout the current market cycle causing notable rises in volatility and large drawdowns. With more of these likely in the future, as our long bull market cycle ages, how…
No Big Deal
Twenty years from now, some bright young analyst looking at data for the U.S. stock market could be excused for thinking that the S&P 500’s 2.4% total return for October 2014 was no big deal – just one more routine good month in a long bull run. If the analyst is particularly inquisitive, he might…
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A Simple Hedge Strategy
Alternative investments for high net worth investors are like the weather — everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it. In fairness, alternative investments — hedge funds, private equity, and the like — are often hard to access and complicated to explain. But if they can deliver on their promise of uncorrelated…