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S&P 500 FC 7% Index: The Gold Standard of Indices Meet’s Today’s Technology
Look inside the S&P 500 FC 7% Index, an innovative index that seeks to provide optimized exposure to the S&P 500 via BofA’s Fast Convergence technology by using intraday volatility signals to adjust component allocations to systematically increase stability and limit exposure to large drawdowns.
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Unlocking the Advantage of Volatility-Control Innovation
How are indices using new risk-control techniques to help enhance stability and responsiveness to evolving market conditions? Look inside the S&P 500 Advantage Index and explore how this innovative tool observes intraday volatility and uses estimations of future market movements to dynamically adjust its weights between equity and cash to navigate potential market declines and…
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Tactical Exposure to U.S. Asset Classes
How are multi-asset indices combining diversification and tactical signals to meet the challenges of today’s unpredictable markets? Meet the S&P U.S. Tactical Multi-Asset 4.5% TCA 0.65% Decrement Index, a rules-based solution that uses signals to dynamically adjust long and short exposures to its U.S. equity and fixed income components, all while targeting a 4.5% volatility…
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A Diversified Strategy for the 21st Century
How are multi-asset indices with built-in adaptability and risk mitigation helping market participants? Meet the S&P Global Diversified 7.5% Index, a multi-asset index designed for today’s markets, reflecting diversification across regions and asset classes and incorporating dynamic signals to help mitigate market uncertainty.
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Introducing the S&P Commodity Risk Premia Diversifier TCA Index
The author would like to thank Arlene Habib for her contributions to this blog. Diversification is a foundational principle within asset allocation, as it seeks to reduce risk and mitigate drawdowns by combining exposure across different asset classes—like equities, fixed income and commodities—that generally do not move in tandem. Commodities, like energy and precious metals,…
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Indexing Covered Calls for Insurance
How can an emphasis on rules-based predictability provide greater clarity in risk and return assessment? In an interview with Insurance Asia News, S&P DJI’s Priscilla Luk explores how an index-based approach to covered calls may help insurance companies to mitigate the impact of market volatility.
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An Adaptive Approach to Multi-Asset Diversification
A static approach to multi-asset index construction may be slow to react to changing markets. Discover how the S&P 500 Market Agility 10 TCA Index dynamically manages its allocations to stocks and bonds to respond rapidly to market movements and yield curve trends.
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Gold and U.S. Treasuries Helped the S&P MARC 5% Index Performance YTD
Despite substantial market volatility and significant drawdowns in the first quarter of 2020, the S&P MARC 5% Index ended the quarter in positive territory (see The Importance of Asset Class Diversification: A Performance Analysis of the S&P MARC 5% Index). With markets staging impressive rebounds, we take a renewed look at the performance of the…
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S&P Risk Parity Indices Surge on the Back of a Rally in Treasuries
Expectations have diverged in 2019, as equity markets welcomed a dovish Fed, while the bond market exhibited pessimism. In the second quarter, the S&P 500® finished up 4.3% despite ongoing trade tensions, while the yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury Bond fell 40 bps to 2.0% and the U.S. Treasury curve remained inverted. The S&P…
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Synchronized Gains Push the S&P Risk Parity Indices to New Highs
The first quarter of 2019 was one of synchronized gains across stocks, bonds, and commodities. Stocks soared, with the S&P 500® up 13.6%, recording its largest first quarter gain since 1998. Amid a dovish tone from the Fed, U.S. Treasury yields declined, with the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury Bond falling to its lowest…
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