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Jul 7, 2014

Tim EdwardsManaging Director, Index Investment StrategyS&P Dow Jones Indices

Why is the VIX so high?

No, our crack proofreading team didn’t muff the headline. After several weeks of seemingly unanimous commentary about how investor complacency has resulted in VIX® levels that are “too low,” we want to ask the contrarian question. Rather than being too low, why is the VIX so high? The question is germane because there has been…

Categories S&P 500 & DJIA, Strategy
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2014, Gods of the Copybook Headings, index dynamics, Index Investment Strategy, Tim Edwards, VIX, volatility

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2014, Gods of the Copybook Headings, index dynamics, Index Investment Strategy, Tim Edwards, VIX, volatility

Oct 28, 2013

Craig LazzaraManaging Director and Global Head of Index Investment StrategyS&P Dow Jones Indices

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…

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alternative assets, alternative investments, Craig Lazzara, diversification, Dynamic VEQTOR, hedge funds, index performance, low volatility, passive management, PHDG, S&P 500, VEQTOR, VIX, VQT

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Kevin Horan Director, Fixed Income Indices

Craig Lazzara Managing Director and Global Head of Index Investment Strategy

Tim Edwards Managing Director, Index Investment Strategy

Fei Mei Chan Director, Index Investment Strategy

Hamish Preston Associate Director, U.S. Equity Indices

Berlinda Liu Director, Global Research & Design

Koel Ghosh Head of South Asia

Phillip Brzenk Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Philip Murphy Managing Director, Global Head of Index Governance

Aye Soe Managing Director, Global Head of Product Management

Fiona Boal Head of Commodities and Real Assets

Howard Silverblatt Senior Index Analyst, Product Management

Michael Orzano Senior Director, Global Equity Indices

Anu Ganti Senior Director, Index Investment Strategy

Hong Xie Senior Director, Global Research & Design

Jamie Farmer Chief Commercial Officer

Akash Jain Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Chris Bennett Director, Index Investment Strategy

Reid Steadman Managing Director, Global Head of ESG

Shaun Wurzbach Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Advisor Channel

Jaime Merino Director, Asset Owners Channel

Maria Sanchez Associate Director, Global Research & Design

Ved Malla Associate Director, Client Coverage

Bill Hao Director, Global Research & Design

John Welling Director, Equity Indices

Jason Giordano Director, Fixed Income, Product Management

Jim Wiederhold Associate Director, Commodities and Real Assets

Tianyin Cheng Senior Director, Strategy and Volatility Indices

Qing Li Director, Global Research & Design

Silvia Kitchener Director, Global Equity Indices, Latin America

Priscilla Luk Managing Director, Global Research & Design, APAC

Rupert Watts Senior Director, Strategy Indices

Liyu Zeng Director, Global Research & Design

Ben Leale-Green Analyst, Research & Design, ESG Indices

Karina Tjin Analyst, Strategy Indices

Michael Mell Senior Director, Custom Indices

Stuart Magrath Senior Director, Channel Management, Australia and New Zealand

Andrew Innes Head of EMEA, Global Research & Design

Izzy Wang Analyst, Strategy Indices

Mona Naqvi Senior Director, Head of ESG Product Strategy, North America

Brian Luke Global Head of Fixed Income Indices

Louis Bellucci Senior Director, Index Governance

Smita Chirputkar Director, Global Research & Design

Arpit Gupta Senior Analyst, Global Research & Design

Ari Rajendra Senior Director, Strategy & Volatility Indices

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