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Investors can achieve superior returns and experience less volatility by focusing their investment strategy around dividend - growing stocks.

Not exact matches

Despite a record one - day point decline on the Dow Jones index, many Wall Street experts believe the sell - off was less tied to fundamentals and was instead exacerbated by volatility - linked products and algorithmic trading.

Take for instance the findings of a recent study by Morgan Stanley that shows more diverse workplaces deliver better returns and less volatility.

Meanwhile, trade in other alternative assets — such as fine art, wine and potentially, RVs — is less liquid, but has been favored by some as a hedge against volatility in the markets.

And yet the Australian economy avoided a major downturn and turned in a performance on economic activity characterised by no more, and on some metrics slightly less, volatility.

Investors have been disappointed by the revenue drop stemming from less trading activity in the OTC retail segment, as last year's market volatility was hardly noticeable.

Applied to the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Implied Volatility Index (VIX), this alternative offers a longer sample period less dominated by the 2008 - 2009 equity market crash.

As the Fund tracks the US stock market excluding the S&P 500 Index, which comprise 500 large cap companies, the companies tracked by the Fund would be significantly smaller in market capitalization, and would tend to be less mature with higher volatility.

By holding your funds in fiat, you can minimize the volatility of your balance, as fiat currencies are generally less volatile than cryptocurrencies.

Cons: Less liquid than the above assets; outperformed in most years by stocks; subject to some volatility; default wipes out value

Also, you can assemble your DGI portfolio to have less volatility (beta) than the index by a higher allocation to stocks in consumer staples and utilities sectors.

The resulting volatility has been extreme: the price frequently moves by more than 10pc within hours - sometimes less.

A portfolio with a beta of greater than 1 would generally see its share price rise or fall by more than the market, while a portfolio with a beta of less than 1 would have less share price volatility than the market.

While gold prices have more or less remained in a tight band from the start of 2016, the escalating crisis in the Middle East has led to massive volatility in crude - oil prices, and at the end of November this year, crude oil has rallied by 55 percent compared to the 20 - percent gain in gold.

This has less to do the rise of ebooks than the volatility of book markets, which, according to Nielsen's director of book research, Hazel Kenyon, can be swayed by trends and the success of individual titles.

Traditionally published titles by newer authors, with Kindle debuts after 2009, show far less stability and similar volatility as titles by self - published authors.

Under more normal conditions, the simple answer for U.S. investors, particularly when volatility is being driven by concerns over growth, is to re-allocate to more defensive, less economically sensitive parts of the U.S. market.

The approach, by design, is overweighting securities that exhibit less volatility.

Fund managers aim to do this by a significant margin over the long - term and aim to deliver returns with less volatility (risk) than the broader UK equity market.

Seeks to outperform the S&P 500 Index with less volatility (standard deviation) over a full market cycle by investing in companies that compound earnings and capital and by taking advantage of valuation anomalies.

There's also strong but less overwhelming evidence of long - term outperformance by other approaches, including low volatility investing, dividend investing and momentum investing.

The S&P 600 Index of small cap stocks has beaten the S&P 500 by 1.3 % per year over the last 20 years, with slightly less volatility to boot.

It helps you to trade less by avoiding the low volatility lunchtime price action.

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

The risk as measured by the volatility of the portfolio returns expressed in annualized terms is far less for dividend paying stocks than it is for non-dividend paying stocks.

The subsequent low - volatility screening is designed so that bonds with less risk, as demonstrated by their trading pattern, are selected, while duration and credit rating are held equal.

Not only that, it delivered a better return with slightly less volatility — as measured by the monthly standard deviation.

Distribution rates are generally based on the average current volatility of the securities held by the ETF, along with any dividend income received, less expenses payable by the ETF.

RBC research found that U.S. dividend payers and dividend growers outperformed the S&P 500 between January 1994 and November 2015 by a modest margin and with volatility only slightly less than the benchmark.

Of the people surveyed by BMO, 42 % reported that market volatility played no role while 37 % stated that it did; 19 % indicated that market volatility caused them to contribute more, while 18 % said they contributed less.

They may want to manage volatility by investing in less - risky, high - quality companies rather than in the market as a whole, even at the cost of slightly lower returns.

By selecting bonds with low MCR, the low volatility index keeps more credit exposure (long spread duration) for high - quality bonds (low OAS) and less credit exposure (short spread duration) for low - quality bonds (high OAS).

However, one fact is obvious — in recent years trend trading this particular ETF portfolio has outperformed buy and hold by a significant margin, with lower drawdowns and less volatility.

So while you could end up with a larger nest egg by stinting on saving but shooting for higher returns than by investing less aggressively and saving more, you could also end up with a smaller one if the increased volatility that comes with a more aggressive investing strategy works against you and returns come in lower than expected.

Those who are intrigued by the growth prospects of emerging markets but are less tolerant of the risk involved in venturing outside the U.S. may want to focus on the iShares Edge MSCI Minimum Volatility Emerging Markets ETF.

Still, it is worth noting that, over the past 15 years, the advisers making it onto each year's honor roll on average over the subsequent 12 months went on to make 1.2 percentage points more a year than those who didn't, while nevertheless incurring 25 % less risk, as measured by volatility of returns.

I'm hoping that by mixing these different styles of fund I can lower the weighted MER and possibly a little get a better return and / or little less volatility.

Still, by adding this third «factor» to our portfolio, we arrive at a destination that has for the past 88 years posted the same rate of return as the all - stock S&P 500 — and that with 20.5 % less relative volatility.

Less interest rate volatility risk than long - term U.S. Treasury bonds Prices of all market - traded fixed - rate bonds are affected by interest rates.

Even so, by investing in markets only when they are truly cheap (> median real earnings yield) and holding cash otherwise, investors would have generated about 70 % of the total return to stocks with less than half the volatility and 73 % lower drawdowns since 1934.

Consuelo Mack: And, Rupal, it's very difficult to get our heads around seeking growth in income with less risk by embracing volatility in a lonely trade.

Of course this is educated guesswork, but we note that volatility since 2014 was incurred by a ~ 2 % imbalance in supply / demand and was steadied by co-ordinated OPEC action, perhaps less likely with the envisaged rivalry on cost.

although it adds «countries with large amounts of hydro - in particular the Nordics - are much less affected by increased price volatility.»

By comparison, the ether markets experienced far less volatility, ending the week close to where it started.

Long - term future pricing has been heralded by some investors as a considerable vote of confidence for virtual currencies, potentially paving the way for less market volatility and further increased investment over time.

Markets, after nearly a decade of low rates and low growth, are adjusting to the new normal and corresponding volatility — and while China may own over a trillion dollars of U.S. debt, that's less than 20 percent of all debt owned by foreign nations, and a fifth of what America owes itself.