Buy - and - hold investors often can ride out currency fluctuations in international stocks, or short -
term bond volatility.
Learn about the major risks for the bond market in 2016; interest rate increases, high -
yield bond volatility and a flatter yield curve may be issues.
Although bond volatility is less than stocks, we have seen several examples already where bonds can lose money in the short term and may take several years to recover from those deficits.
Central bank asset purchases have smothered volatility and pushed investors to take greater risks, but we see potential for higher equity and
bond volatility amid looming political risks and as the Fed presses ahead with higher rates.
We see central banks nearing the limits of extraordinary monetary easing, low returns across most asset classes as well as higher equity and
bond volatility amid looming political risks and Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening.
If rates start to rise,
bond volatility will be exacerbated by higher durations.
That's just a quantitative way to say that we believe valuation levels today trump the historical analysis of stock and
bond volatility.
But even with that awful performance,
bond volatility has slumped.
Bond volatility is about to become the norm.
If rates start to rise,
bond volatility will be exacerbated by higher durations.