Earnings from equity - indexed annuities are usually slightly higher than traditional fixed rate annuities, lower than variable rate annuities but
with better downside risk protection than variable annuities usually offer.
«It has very high margins, a scalable business model, and a strong balance sheet, so it offers
good downside protection if energy prices soften,» Marks said.
Choose any decent multicap fund that performed well and
offered good downside protection (which can all be found in ValueResearch or smart.unovest.co).
The two - factor model also
provides better downside protection, demonstrated by a maximum drawdown of 13.28 % (monthly rebalancing) or 13.69 % (quarterly rebalanced) compared to 14.57 % of the base universe.
The fund's mean return is higher than the category mean at 10.82 % against average of 9.85 % and also has better Sortino ratio at 2.73 is higher than category average of 1.84 thereby indicating that the fund has
better downside capture.
So when Market (or BSE Small Cap Index) will fall, former will more but later will
better downside limit.
Investors may think their portfolios have
better downside support in challenging markets if the stocks they hold have lower valuations, but a better approach might be to seek out areas that have been overlooked.
FIAs, it turns out, have comparable volatility to bonds, but
with better downside protection, according to new research from Roger G. Ibbotson, professor emeritus of finance at the Yale School of Management.
Couple things to keep in mind: DHT's fleet is much younger than VLCCF's (ships have useful lives of 20 - 30 years); DHT's fleet is on longer - term contracts than VLCCF's, which
provides better downside protection; and DHT owns 3 more ships than VLCCF.
While the above table indicates that traditional investment grade bonds represented by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate are the least correlated to the S&P 500 and offer
the best downside protection, that might not always be the case going forward.
We believe a hedged equity approach may be
a better downside protection option given current market conditions.
If you believe there is a risk that the merger will not go through, ESIO offers
the better downside protection because it is at a deeper discount to its liquidating value.