The goal of modern portfolio theory (MPT) is to have a portfolio of assets that each have positive expected long-term returns, and are negatively correlated to each other, so as to help smooth out the volatility of the overall portfolio and potentially increase the overall returns through rebalancing. Correlations measure the likelihood that the two securities or asset classes move in the same direction. Unfortunately, correlations can fluctuate in periods of heightened volatility. While investors expect returns to fluctuate, many investors were not prepared for the across the board severe declines in the majority of asset classes held in 2008. Much of this can be attributed to the diminished diversification benefits between different types of equity investments in the face of heightened volatility.
Clueless about investments? They are not as hard as you think. This workshop was created to help participants understand the basics of the financial instruments that they can use to achieve their goals.
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Diversify Your Investment Portfolio
Diversification is a means of reducing risk and increasing opportunity in investing. The chances of having a stock in your portfolio rise significantly in price goes up when you have five well-chosen stocks instead of one. The chances of losing all of your investment capital also go down when you diversify your investment portfolio among several stocks in several market sectors. Likewise, if a part of your investments is in property, a part is in stocks, a part is in bonds, and a part is in offshore investments you can reduce risk and increase the opportunity for profits. When suggesting offshore investment opportunities we wrote about Three Good Offshore Investment Ideas, for example.
Diversify Your Investment Portfolio to Gain Variety and Opportunity
When you diversify your investment portfolio you invest in a variety of assets. Because the value of each investment does not go up or down in perfect harmony, diversification averages out risk, as well as gain. To the extent that one is looking to a big gainer, having more stocks, real estate, or other assets may serve to increase the odds of success. In their book A Random Walk Down Wall Street the authors note that the best return in stocks is often a basket of about forty small cap stocks. These stocks are priced low because of the risk inherent in small companies. However, if you diversify your investment portfolio with a large number of these stocks, you increase the chances of finding a huge winner which will negate the effects on the portfolio of a handful of losers.
Clueless about investments? They are not as hard as you think. This workshop was created to help participants understand the basics of the financial instruments that they can use to achieve their goals.
http://www.profitableinvestingtips.com/stock-investing/diversify-your-investment-portfolio
Diversify Your Investment Portfolio
Diversification is a means of reducing risk and increasing opportunity in investing. The chances of having a stock in your portfolio rise significantly in price goes up when you have five well-chosen stocks instead of one. The chances of losing all of your investment capital also go down when you diversify your investment portfolio among several stocks in several market sectors. Likewise, if a part of your investments is in property, a part is in stocks, a part is in bonds, and a part is in offshore investments you can reduce risk and increase the opportunity for profits. When suggesting offshore investment opportunities we wrote about Three Good Offshore Investment Ideas, for example.
Diversify Your Investment Portfolio to Gain Variety and Opportunity
When you diversify your investment portfolio you invest in a variety of assets. Because the value of each investment does not go up or down in perfect harmony, diversification averages out risk, as well as gain. To the extent that one is looking to a big gainer, having more stocks, real estate, or other assets may serve to increase the odds of success. In their book A Random Walk Down Wall Street the authors note that the best return in stocks is often a basket of about forty small cap stocks. These stocks are priced low because of the risk inherent in small companies. However, if you diversify your investment portfolio with a large number of these stocks, you increase the chances of finding a huge winner which will negate the effects on the portfolio of a handful of losers.
The undeniable global macroeconomic step change warrants a re-think of portfolio construction for the next investment cycle. The regulation of hedge funds presents an additional tool previously not available to the retail investor that can act as a component of greater certainty in a portfolio cognisant of a VUCA world
The presentation tries to give an overview of why an individual (retail investor) should opt for investing in the financial markets through various vehicles for getting returns that can beat inflation and other asset classes. Reach out for getting more clarity or assistance regarding the same.
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Investing in philippine stock market for beginners - a quick start for Filipino (Pinoy) investors:
Excerpt:
Stocks are simply shares of ownership in a
corporation. Thus anyone owning stocks or shares of
a company is called the company’s shareholder or
stockholder. Being a part-owner, you partake in the
performance, growth, earnings and profits, as well as
losses, of these companies.
The stock market is the place where people
converge to buy and sell shares or stocks through an
authorized stockbroker. That means once you have
your broker and enough money to buy stocks, you
can readily start investing in the stock market and
brand yourself as a noble shareholder of giant
fantastic companies.
In the Philippines, the Philippine stock market is the
place where you can invest in Philippine Stock
Exchange (PSE) - listed companies. And only those
people or firms accredited by PSE as authorized
brokers can participate directly in trading and putting
buy or sell orders.
Why Invest? To make your hard-earned money
work even harder for you
Investing enables one’s savings to grow or
appreciate to achieve various
long term financial goals. It is
said to be the most effective
way of building personal
wealth and attaining future
financial
security
for
oneself. It also safeguards
one’s capital against
inflation which erodes
the purchasing power
of your money if it’s not
invested.
Why stock market?
Because history says
so!
The fact is that stock
market is not the only
type of investment present
in the capital market. But history has proven that
nvesting in the stock market over the long-term has
outperformed all fixed-income instruments, plus it
offers good protection against inflation. The market
undeniably continuously experiences highs and lows,
dumps and trumps, and blows and dips, but these
short-term pictures are just tiny pixels compared to
the general uptrend portrait recognized in the long
run.
Who can invest? Everyone can!
Anyone can invest in the stock market. It is a readily
available choice of financial vehicle for those who
want to make their hard-earned money work even
harder for them. Millionaires or not, everyone can
earn in the same battle field.
Everyone motivated can do it.
When should you invest? When you’re ready!
That’s when you have money you won’t need for
your basic expenses, which you would otherwise put
in a bank. It’s better if it’s made available in a longer
time as it allows the investment to ride through the
Crown Venture Investment Fund's primary investment strategy is to assemble and manage a concentrated portfolio of U.S. common stocks at prices well below their investment value.
Though much derided by skeptics, short selling has proven it’s uncanny ability to indicate bubbles before they engulf the entire system. A great example of this was the post-2007 subprime crisis where short sellers, who realized the toxicity of these supposed AAA+ derivatives, started betting against them. Short selling is an important market feedback mechanism. In a bull market, participants tend to snap up products driven by exuberance rather than by due diligence. It is instances like there where a short seller intervenes and restores a semblance of sanity to the market.
In this PPT, Multi-Act explains the pros and cons of short-selling and how it can be used to ensure capital preservation.
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In a post-RDR environment, there has never been a more important time to communicate with your clients on a regular basis, and each factsheet will ensure that you're able to nurture relationships as part of your ongoing client service proposition.
Each factsheet used as part of a direct mail campaign provides an unrivalled way of maintaining client contact and providing information that your clients know to be impartial, relevant and timely.
Equity market (commonly known as share market) is place of possibilities. However, you can still play a good innings by following these important points
The undeniable global macroeconomic step change warrants a re-think of portfolio construction for the next investment cycle. The regulation of hedge funds presents an additional tool previously not available to the retail investor that can act as a component of greater certainty in a portfolio cognisant of a VUCA world
The presentation tries to give an overview of why an individual (retail investor) should opt for investing in the financial markets through various vehicles for getting returns that can beat inflation and other asset classes. Reach out for getting more clarity or assistance regarding the same.
Discover The Profit-Pulling Wall Street Trading Secrets THEY Don't Want You To Know About!
==> http://EasyStockTradingSecrets.com
Grab your FREE "Developing A Trading System" Report now
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Investing in philippine stock market for beginners - a quick start for Filip...Omeng Tawid
Investing in philippine stock market for beginners - a quick start for Filipino (Pinoy) investors:
Excerpt:
Stocks are simply shares of ownership in a
corporation. Thus anyone owning stocks or shares of
a company is called the company’s shareholder or
stockholder. Being a part-owner, you partake in the
performance, growth, earnings and profits, as well as
losses, of these companies.
The stock market is the place where people
converge to buy and sell shares or stocks through an
authorized stockbroker. That means once you have
your broker and enough money to buy stocks, you
can readily start investing in the stock market and
brand yourself as a noble shareholder of giant
fantastic companies.
In the Philippines, the Philippine stock market is the
place where you can invest in Philippine Stock
Exchange (PSE) - listed companies. And only those
people or firms accredited by PSE as authorized
brokers can participate directly in trading and putting
buy or sell orders.
Why Invest? To make your hard-earned money
work even harder for you
Investing enables one’s savings to grow or
appreciate to achieve various
long term financial goals. It is
said to be the most effective
way of building personal
wealth and attaining future
financial
security
for
oneself. It also safeguards
one’s capital against
inflation which erodes
the purchasing power
of your money if it’s not
invested.
Why stock market?
Because history says
so!
The fact is that stock
market is not the only
type of investment present
in the capital market. But history has proven that
nvesting in the stock market over the long-term has
outperformed all fixed-income instruments, plus it
offers good protection against inflation. The market
undeniably continuously experiences highs and lows,
dumps and trumps, and blows and dips, but these
short-term pictures are just tiny pixels compared to
the general uptrend portrait recognized in the long
run.
Who can invest? Everyone can!
Anyone can invest in the stock market. It is a readily
available choice of financial vehicle for those who
want to make their hard-earned money work even
harder for them. Millionaires or not, everyone can
earn in the same battle field.
Everyone motivated can do it.
When should you invest? When you’re ready!
That’s when you have money you won’t need for
your basic expenses, which you would otherwise put
in a bank. It’s better if it’s made available in a longer
time as it allows the investment to ride through the
Crown Venture Investment Fund's primary investment strategy is to assemble and manage a concentrated portfolio of U.S. common stocks at prices well below their investment value.
Though much derided by skeptics, short selling has proven it’s uncanny ability to indicate bubbles before they engulf the entire system. A great example of this was the post-2007 subprime crisis where short sellers, who realized the toxicity of these supposed AAA+ derivatives, started betting against them. Short selling is an important market feedback mechanism. In a bull market, participants tend to snap up products driven by exuberance rather than by due diligence. It is instances like there where a short seller intervenes and restores a semblance of sanity to the market.
In this PPT, Multi-Act explains the pros and cons of short-selling and how it can be used to ensure capital preservation.
Read More @ http://multi-act.com/the-long-n-short-of-it/
Website - http://multi-act.com/
Contact Us - http://multi-act.com/contact/
the choice of financial professionals
Print
Digital
Websites
Creative
Marketing
Personalised Client Marketing Factsheets
You may also be interested in
Financial adviser newsletters
Financial adviser client magazines
Personalised marketing factsheets
Financial adviser Corporate brochures
Personalised 2014/15 Tax Data card
Bespoke publishing services
Financial adviser client marketing factsheets
Goldmine Media's professional financial adviser factsheets will enable your business to extend client communication, raise brand awareness, improve marketing efficiency, enhance client retention and increase sales.
Generate further repeat business opportunities
This service has been designed to generate further repeat business opportunities and referrals from your clients. Besides educating and informing clients, you're also achieving greater brand and name recognition, which is a very beneficial way to build lasting relationships.
Nurture relationships as part of your ongoing service proposition
In a post-RDR environment, there has never been a more important time to communicate with your clients on a regular basis, and each factsheet will ensure that you're able to nurture relationships as part of your ongoing client service proposition.
Each factsheet used as part of a direct mail campaign provides an unrivalled way of maintaining client contact and providing information that your clients know to be impartial, relevant and timely.
Equity market (commonly known as share market) is place of possibilities. However, you can still play a good innings by following these important points
We are developing an app to help young people keep track of their wardrobes and suggest suitable outfits to wear depending on weather and circumstances.
The goal of modern portfolio theory (MPT) is to have a portfolio of assets that each have positive expected long-term returns, and are negatively correlated to each other, so as to help smooth out the volatility of the overall portfolio and potentially increase the overall returns through rebalancing.
Investment products vary in risk, return and duration. So do investor objectives. Successfully matching financial instruments with financial plans takes skill, know how and ability.
Speaker Notes
Introduction
Hello, everyone present in today's congregation; welcome to this presentation covering the U.S. financial markets exchange derivatives, bonds, shares, and currencies. This lengthy presentation will assess top financial asset investments. As Fidelity Investments' research analyst, I help investors analyze financial assets. Equities and bonds dominate asset allocation; thus, this presentation will focus on these topics. Asset allocation helps stock and bond investors avoid market underperformance.
Agenda
This study's sections emphasize portfolio management and coherence. The section also involves carefully studying selected securities to help choose the best financial asset. We will rigorously assess the S&P 500 and Dow Jones to uncover the best stock and bond choices in the U.S. banking sector.
Financial Market Overview
S&P 500 and Dow Jones have been the best U.S. stock market exchange performers. According to the financial records recorded from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on November 4, the S&P 500 index was constant at 7:05 p.m. and rose to 4370 points by 9:00 p.m. However, it fell to 4360 at 10:00 p.m., 4356.61 at 11:00 p.m., and 4350 at 1:00 a.m. According to Money Control (2023), the S&P 500 scored 16.61 points in six hours.
Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 0.12% from 34,061.32 at 10:00 a.m. to 34,049.72 at 4:00 p.m. Moneycontrol (2023) reported 34,160.00 and 33,920.00 highs and lows with no major movements.
Due to its volatility, the S&P 500 gained more than the Dow Jones. On November 4, 2023, the Dow Jones graph shows decreasing stocks and bonds. Interest rates, liquidity, and geopolitics impact stocks.
Diversification
Diversification reduces financial asset management portfolio losses. Protects against underperforming stocks and assets. Market and portfolio volatility are reduced by asset class variety. The lecture explains how diversification protects investors from asset performance swings and significant losses. Diversified asset allocation helps investors achieve goals in volatile markets.
Diversified Portfolio Justification
Diversification improves portfolio performance and lowers risk. Assets are spread among classes, industries, and locations to lessen market volatility and safeguard against surprises. This method stabilizes performance, helping the portfolio thrive during recessions. Diversified portfolios help investors adjust to economic cycles by exposing them to different market conditions.
Stock Selection Analysis
Dow Jones and S&P are examined using P/E ratios, risk indicators, and market patterns. Moreover, this pattern presents how market sentiment and investor confidence affect both indices' P/E ratios. Besides, Alpha, Beta, Mean Annual Return, R-Squared, standard deviation, Sharpe Ratio, and Treynor Ratio are evaluated to assess index volatility.
Portfolio Strategy for Financial Asset Management
Portfolio growth investing targets high-growth companies with long-term profits.
The Toroso Target 8 Series consists of five distinct portfolios comprised of ETFs and other exchange traded products (ETPs), that are structured to reflect a client’s economic point of view while considering the client’s risk tolerance and time horizon. Toroso recognizes the need for clients to express their economic point of view while achieving more consistent returns than those structured using more traditional approaches such as Modern Portfolio Theory. Risk is mitigated using 4 distinct asset classes such that not one economic scenario will deplete a client’s portfolio under stressful market events.
The article discusses an alternative approach to experiencing the costs of index reconstitution, called “Asset Classes,” which allow the fund manager broader leeway as to when to buy or sell, along with a broader range of holdings. This discussion begins in the section called “Decision Two: Indexing or Asset Class Investing?”
The Asset Class approach, also referred to by others as "Factor Investing," is based on what has become to be called “Evidence Based Investing” due to roots discussed in the linked "Factor Investing" article, that come from academic (peer reviewed and repeatable results) foundation that continues to this day.
My blog post discussing this article is scheduled to post 8 Feb 2017 http://wp.me/p2Oizj-Hh
Investors often endure poor timing and planning as
many chase past performance. They buy into funds
that are performing well and initiate a selling spree
following a decline.
Investing in these times of economic and social uncertainty takes some extra care and skill. With the proper investment strategy you can weather the storm and come out on the other side better than when it started.
Warren Buffett recently discussed his win of a decade long wager in the 2017 Annual Report of Berkshire Hathaway. His winning claim was that an investment in a US equity index would outperform a selected group of hedge funds over the period. Although, over time, equity is a strong return generating asset class, the majority of investors are not in the privileged position where they not only have the luxury of time and emotional fortitude, but also sufficient excess capital to be able to fully invest in such a risky asset class to reap the reward that comes with time. The role of hedge funds in the portfolio construction of these investors is explored.
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Prolessor fsadore (Lmy) Invest-a-Lot retired two years ago from Exceptional College, a small bberal arts college in Louisiana after teaching corporate finance and imvestment theory for 35 years. Yesterday, laxy appeat on EC LIVE, a television show produced for the students, faculty and staff on the EU campurs and the local communities. Samantha Salvertongue is the host of EC UVVE, and one of Professor Iry's former students. The following is a transcript of the interview. Unfortunately the software that transcribes the interview into written form failed to understand several words and phrases used in the interview. To complete the transcript and demonstrate your knowledge of the risks and returns of investing. please select the best answer from each dropdown menu. SAMANTHA: Good morning, Professor Imvest-a-Lot. I'd Like to welcome you to EC LIVE, and thank you for coming in today to offer us insights into the basics of investing. I remember your course well, and while my grades didn't always reflect great success, I was always very interested in the material and the possibility of using the concepts and technques when the opportunities arose. 1ZYt Good morning, Samantha, and please call me, Irry. Thank you for the invitation to discuss one of the important fundamentals to sound imvesting: an apprecation of the relationship between the objective or outcome of your investment, that is its and the likehiood of receiving it, or the investment's. SAMANIHA: Let's begin with a generalization regarding the financial markets. Hew are people buying and selling investments in the financial markets generally assumed to react to risk? And, how do the markets define "risk"? IZYr Rusk is best thought of as the potential for variability in the investment's outcomes. This means that if an investment has the potential to provide only one possible outcome or return, then it is while if there is more than one possible return or result, then the asset should be considered This is why securities sold by the U.S. Treasury have historically been considered to be the securities in the world; because except in the event of the failure of the U.S. government, any investor holding a Treasury security would receive the security's face volue upon its maturity. Most investors have an expected outcome associated with an investment, and risk refers to the potential for receiving an outcome or return that is greater of less than his or her expected return. It is not surprising that investors receiving investment returns that exceed their expected return, but they tend to respond differently if the imvestment can generate a lower return. This potential for outcome is the risk on which most irvestors focus. In general, the majority of investors, or those buying and selling secunities, are assumed to be This does not mean that they won't purchase or sell risky securibes or projects, it simply means that they be compensated with a risk premuium or additional return for taking on p.
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http://www.torosoinv.com/strategies - The Solactive Toroso Indices represent hypothetical back-tested performance returns, do not represent the performance of actual client accounts, and were created by
retroactively applying models based on various assumptions, designed with the benefit of hindsight, in order to demonstrate the potential benefit.
Business Characteristic ETFs: Completing the Corekeatonsmith
http://www.torosoinv.com - At Toroso, we believe the historical returns of mainstream indexing may not be what investors should expect to receive in the future.
The Toroso Target 8 Series consists of five distinct portfolios comprised of ETFs and other exchange traded products (ETPs), that are structured to reflect a client’s economic point of view while considering the client’s risk tolerance and time horizon. Risk is mitigated using 4 distinct asset classes such that not one economic scenario will deplete a client’s portfolio under stressful market events.
The Toroso Target Income Series uses exchange-traded products (ETPs) to create three distinct fixed
income portfolios intended to behave more like traditional bonds. The goal is to target a specific yield
while returning principal at a target date. While it is impossible to guarantee the receipt of income or
the return of principal, the proliferation of ETPs has created the opportunity to build synthetic bond
portfolios that simulate traditional bond characteristics, but reduce risk through greater diversification.
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Portfolio Strategy: Want Tail Risk Protection?
Research compiled by Michael Venuto, CIO and David Dziekanski, Portfolio Manager
Modern Portfolio Theory
and Correlations
The goal of modern portfolio theory (MPT) is to have a
portfolio of assets that each have positive expected long-
term returns, and are negatively correlated to each other,
so as to help smooth out the volatility of the overall
portfolio and potentially increase the overall returns
through rebalancing. Correlations measure the likelihood
that the two securities or asset classes move in the same
direction. Unfortunately, correlations can fluctuate in
periods of heightened volatility. While investors expect
returns to fluctuate, many investors were not prepared for
the across the board severe declines in the majority of
asset classes held in 2008. Much of this can be attributed
to the diminished diversification benefits between different
types of equity investments in the face of heightened
volatility.
U.S. Treasuries have been the asset class of choice when
looking for pure portfolio diversification to equities. In
other words, when equities were going down, treasuries
would be expected to go up. This relationship existed
even in 2008 and 2009 when volatility spiked.
Surprisingly, as the chart below demonstrates, treasuries
have not always been uncorrelated to equities.
Based on the decisions of the Federal Reserve Board
affecting interest rates and money supply, and where bond
yields are likely heading, it’s not out of the question that
future rises in interest rates could break down the
correlation benefits on which MPT investors have
depended. This could be especially true if future
increases to interest rates do not coincide with strong
growth markets. This is not to say bonds are a poor
diversifier, but rather that investors should not be
surprised that the diversification benefits of bonds, which
historically have fluctuated, are also likely to fluctuate in
the future.
Other Forms of Portfolio Insurance
There are other ways to provide downside protection, or
“portfolio insurance”, in an investment portfolio. Some
investors are attempting to hedge the changing correlation
benefits of their portfolios, namely volatility. Unfortunately,
the only way to capture this volatility is to use exchange-
traded products (ETPs) that capture the differences in VIX
futures prices. VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago
Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, a popular
measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options.
Often referred to as the fear index, it represents one
measure of the market's expectation of stock market
volatility over the next 30 day period. But history has
shown VIX futures prices to be in contango more often
than not. Contango is where the longer-term futures
prices are above the shorter-term futures prices, creating
a substantial cost of maintaining that exposure to the VIX.
Additionally, because volatility is nonlinear (in other words,
the price of the VIX is not in line with the volatility it
measures), it has had a difficult time keeping value
through choppy markets. All of this creates erosion for a
long-term investor, and has mitigated many of the benefits
that VIX ETPs were intended to offer (more on this later in
this commentary). Which leads us to question whether
there is a better way to get a similar portfolio hedge
without experiencing erosion due to contango in the VIX
futures markets?
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Equities That Lose Less – Downside
Protection with Non-Traditional Indexing
Another way investors have attempted to add value is
through non-traditional indexing. One of the most popular
forms of this idea has been low-volatility investing. There
are many different methodologies on how to construct a
low-volatility portfolio, but the basic idea is to have a
basket of stocks that will be less volatile, and in theory,
offer downside protection against traditional market-cap
weighted indexes. Clearly, this will help, but it is still a
basket of stocks, which means that it will most likely be
highly correlated with the rest of the portfolio.
Next we explore what this would look like if you were to try
to incorporate low beta (or low volatility) investing within a
long/short, market neutral format. Essentially, the strategy
is to buy the low beta stocks and short the high beta
stocks in a single product.
The Evolution of Low Volatility/Beta
Investing
The Dow Jones U.S. Thematic Market Neutral Anti-Beta
Index (DJ Anti-Beta Index) measures the performance of
an investment strategy utilizing short positions on high
beta companies and long positions on low beta
companies. It is designed to be market and sector neutral
(which will not affect sector tilts in the rest of a portfolio).
On September 13, 2011, QuantShares U.S. Market
Neutral Anti-Beta ETF (BTAL) was launched. BTAL
attempts to follow the DJ Anti-Beta Index and when
coupled with stock market investments can offer portfolio
insurance like returns and the low volatility concept that
investors have flocked towards. The index was first
calculated on August 22, 2011, and back-tested to
December 31, 2000. As you can see from the chart
below, this Index has a very compelling non-correlated
return stream compared to traditional equities returning
over 35% in both 2002 and 2008, and over 13% in a
choppy year like 2011.
In the next chart we look at the rolling 3 year correlations
of the DJ Anti-Beta Index since its inception and
Treasuries to the S&P 500 Index, you will notice that the
DJ Anti-Beta Index has even better diversification benefits
than traditional treasuries.
Building a Portfolio
But then the question becomes whether better
diversification, expressed as non-correlation, results in a
better portfolio in terms of returns. The next chart shows
the resulting growth of $100 since January 1, 2006 when
you build a portfolio consisting of 75% S&P 500 Index and
25% of Treasuries Index, or 25% of the DJ Anti-Beta
Index, or 25% of the S&P 500 VIX Mid-term Futures
Index, respectively.
Let’s put this all together and see what we have learned:
1. The drag of contango costs imbedded in the VIX
Mid-term Futures Index has hurt the overall
performance such that the diversification benefits
created in 2008 have been mostly eroded.
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2. The DJ Anti-Beta Index seems to have more
consistent negative correlation to equities than
treasuries, with what appears to be just a fraction
of the drag of the contango costs of VIX Futures.
3. Treasuries appear to have added the most overall
return compared to the other two strategies, but
had the highest maximum drawdown in 2008.
While it appears that of the three strategies presented,
treasuries have added the most value, this may not
necessarily be the case going forward. In this most recent
analysis period from January 1, 2006 to May 31, 2014,
which was constrained by the start of the S&P VIX Mid-
term Futures Index, treasuries have continued to show
consistent negative correlation to equities. But as
mentioned earlier in this commentary, this has not always
been the case and since past performance is not an
indicator of future returns, investors should not expect
treasuries to experience the same type of price
appreciation in the future. Consequently, it may be time to
diversify your diversifiers.
In Conclusion
Implementing strategies that utilize exposure to the DJ
Anti-Beta Index is just one example of how Toroso
compliments other traditional forms of portfolio diversifiers
in order to build portfolios with varying correlations and
hedge out the type of tail risk that has traditionally been
mitigated through exposure to VIX ETPs, without incurring
the structural cost of maintaining VIX ETP exposure,
which is referred to as “contango.” We are not implying
that there is such a thing as free tail risk protection, as
negative correlation always has a cost, but with the DJ
Anti-Beta Index the cost is not built into the
structure. Therefore, there may be ways to systematically
cover this "cost" and still provide the desired outcome
during dramatic bear market events.
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