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The Next Phase of Volatility Control in Indexed Insurance
Volatility-controlled indices (VCIs) have become a cornerstone of indexed insurance product design, helping insurers navigate volatility while maintaining exposure to growth assets. S&P Dow Jones Indices recently published the paper Indexed Insurance: Embracing Volatility-Controlled Indices in Next-Generation Products, in which we explore the growth in popularity of VCIs, their performance across market environments and their…
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S&P 500 FC 7% Index: The Gold Standard of Indices Meets 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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