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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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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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Using the News to Select a More Stable Path to the S&P 500
Meet the S&P 500 RavenPack AI Index, a multi-asset index that applies a news analytics algorithm powered by RavenPack to select S&P 500 sectors with the strongest news sentiment for use in its sector rotation process. The index combines U.S. equities and fixed income, complemented by a daily risk control mechanism that seeks to maintain…
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Meet the S&P 500 Dynamic Intraday TCA Index
Combining a trend-following mechanism with the ability to rebalance up to 13 times during the trading day, this innovative multi-asset index seeks to provide a more stable volatility experience by leveraging the next generation of risk control technology.
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The Gold Standard of Indices Meet’s Today’s Technology
Meet the S&P 500 FC Index, an innovative index designed to adjust allocations based on intraday volatility signals as it seeks to increase stability, limit exposure to drawdowns, while optimizing exposure to the S&P 500 via BofA’s Fast Convergence technology.
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Innovating for Insurance: Charting a “Smarter” Path to the S&P 500
How can an index adjust to prevailing market conditions by design? Meet the S&P 500 IQ Index, a dynamic risk control index that uses intraday technology to rapidly respond to changing markets, increasing S&P 500 exposure when markets are stable and leaning into cash during times of volatility.
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Innovating for Insurance: S&P 500 Duo Swift Index
How is intraday volatility rebalancing helping new multi-asset indices rapidly respond to changing markets? Look inside the S&P 500 Duo Swift Index, a diverse, multi-asset, risk-controlled index that is dynamic by design.
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Defense and Volatility
As the equity market has waned and waxed in 2022, investor interest has naturally turned toward ways of mitigating portfolio losses. Some factor indices can serve this goal, but investors searching for a defensive strategy need to define their search carefully. It’s natural to think that defensive strategies will be less volatile than the market…
Defense in the Balance
Balanced portfolios traditionally (and definitionally) hold a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks have been the better-performing asset over time, but with a level of volatility that many investors find unacceptably high. Although bonds are usually included in a balanced portfolio more as a volatility dampener than a return enhancer, during the bull market in…