I sounded an early alarm to reduce
riskier asset exposure on December 18, 2014 when the Federal Reserve settled its last money creating, credit - fueling bond purchase (a.k.a. «QE3»).
Not exact matches
In the April 2016 version of their paper entitled «Volatility Managed Portfolios», Alan Moreira and Tyler Muir test the performance of a simple volatility timing approach that lowers (raises)
exposure to
risky assets when volatility of recent returns for those
assets is relatively high (low).
Retirement researchers have begun to suggest in recent years that the optimal approach might be to reduce your
exposure to shares and other
risky assets as you approach end - of - work D - Day — but then to actually start to add more shares to the mix again as you proceed through retirement.
There are some tentative signs that investors have been scaling back their
exposure to relatively
risky assets (Graph 18).
The chart below comes from the Pew Center on the States, and it shows how states have over time increased their
exposure to
risky assets.
Investors increase risk
exposure for potential return, adding
exposure to EM equities and other
risky assets.
If you're more risk adverse, you'll want to consider your
exposure to
riskier assets, such as real estate, commodities, and even international stocks and bonds.
As you get closer to needing your money, you will likely want to decrease your
exposure to stocks and other
risky assets and increase your
exposure to less
risky assets such as bonds and cash.
In the April 2016 version of their paper entitled «Volatility Managed Portfolios», Alan Moreira and Tyler Muir test the performance of a simple volatility timing approach that lowers (raises)
exposure to
risky assets when volatility of recent returns for those
assets is relatively high (low).
In doing so we are reducing the portfolio's
exposure to downside when high risk
assets become
riskier late in the cycle and adding to high risk
assets during downturns when they become less
risky.
You also need to diversify your holdings within those
asset classes and hold, in the case of a stock portfolio, a variety of stocks — from
risky to less
risky, in different currencies, in different industries — to reduce your risk
exposure.
There is an ongoing debate about the merits of owning «
risky and complicated» futures contracts as compared to owning «simple and convenient» exchange traded funds (ETFs) when you are trying to gain
exposure to commodities (or any
asset category, for that matter).
Hold - n - hope advocates disparage the notion that one can reduce
exposure to
riskier assets (or raise them) in a manner that might prove successful.
Three months ago to the day (6/30), I served up a list of reasons for lowering one's
exposure to
riskier assets.
Over the long run, a risk parity strategy (which is to say, generally being long both
risky and less
risky assets) is a highly effective way to provide diversified
exposure through the ongoing ebb and flow of market cycles.
Plus you get an inflation hedge, tax relief and
exposure on a
risky asset.
Options investing is one of the safest and most effective ways to add
exposure to
risky assets like commodities.
The first result is that more financial literate households do not always take more risk but their risk
exposures vary with market regimes (for example, a 1 % increase in the expected excess return of
risky assets is associated with a 2 % increase in the
risky share for each unit of financial literacy).
More literate households hold
riskier positions when expected returns are higher, they more actively rebalance their portfolios and do so in a way that holds their risk
exposure relatively constant over time, and they are more likely to buy
assets that provide higher returns than the
assets that they sell.
Commodities are inherently
risky assets, but understanding the price drivers and details of the vehicles that offer
exposure to these resources can empower investors to use this
asset class efficiently.
A Countercyclical Indexing strategy can be implemented in such a way that you're systematically reducing
exposure to
risky assets as the market cycle gets long in the tooth and increasing
exposure to
risky assets as the cycle begins.
The fund also balances
riskier REIT
assets including office and retail
exposure with high - yielding, safe REITs in specialized industries like health care and utilities.
Yes, have some
exposure to
risky assets for your career, but vary the amount of
exposure, and where it goes relative to likely opportunity.
This simply admits that there are times when it is wise to reduce
exposure to
risky assets.
The
exposure will be revised as the portfolio value changes, i.e., when the
risky asset performs and with leverage multiplies by 5 the performance (or vice versa).
When Liddy first took over as CEO, he quickly realized that reducing AIG's
exposure to these
risky assets was the top priority.