The use of leverage, as part of the investment process, can multiply market movements into greater changes in an investment's value, thus resulting in
increased volatility of returns.
Moreover, humans will need guidance that is provided by a human, especially in an environment of
increased volatility in the months and years ahead.
On the aggressive side, the funds are invested mostly in equities which improves returns but
increases volatility as well.
Anything above an allocation of 30 % shows that you don't get significant volatility reduction and can in fact
increase your volatility during some time periods such as from 1992 — 1999.
Still, we expect to
see increased volatility in the market and will be looking to take profits quicker than usual, particularly on leveraged ETFs, and into any market gaps.
We continue to have a positive outlook for our business as economic growth continues to accelerate and the operating environment remains solid
despite increased volatility.
The lower volatility of the high dividend — yield
portfolio increases the volatility of the long — short portfolio used in the statistical test and renders the difference statistically insignificant.
The value of the securities held by the portfolio may be subject to steep declines or
increased volatility due to changes in performance or perception of the issuers.
Since stock splits decrease the stock price, do they
also increase volatility because shares are traded in smaller increments?
With
increased volatility over the last several months, investors who bought and sold at the right time have made some decent profits.
Granted, this would
likely increase the volatility of one's portfolio, meaning more - aggressive accounts will probably feel the most comfortable pursuing such a strategy.
By adding a bit of historically highly volatile and high performing emerging market stocks, we can hope to boost the return by almost 1 % while
hardly increasing the volatility.
Hold - n - hope advocates believe that greater gains with stocks over investment grade bonds require nothing more than a commitment to
accepting increased volatility.
Although equities have recovered somewhat since the dip last month, some experts
believe increased volatility won't be going away anytime soon.
Markets would
endure increased volatility and institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies would experience considerable difficulty.
With a correlation of 0.2, adding bonds to a stock portfolio
increases the volatility of a portfolio relative to using cash for your low - risk asset.
One might have expected the elevated levels of economic and political uncertainty to
increase volatility in financial markets.
However, while it seems that using momentum stocks can produce outstanding returns, they also come
with increased volatility.
For roughly the past 12 months, the net market movement has been flat (just slightly lower after the past several days),
despite increased volatility.
Over the long term, adding emerging markets to a diversified portfolio should be expected to boost its expected return, though it may
also increase volatility.
An investment in the Gator Focus Fund is subject to special risks including but not limited to, small and mid cap companies securities risk which is subject to the potential
for increased volatility as a result of investing in securities that are more volatile compared to investments in more established companies.
Commodity ETPs are generally more volatile than broad - based ETFs and can be affected
by increased volatility of commodities prices or indexes as well as changes in supply and demand relationships, interest rates, monetary and other governmental policies or factors affecting a particular sector or commodity.
The recent market weakness may pass but the seed of concerns
about increased volatility, rising interest rates and inflation has well and truly been planted, suggesting these concerns will be revisited by participants.
Often increases in the technical efficiency of information or trading
systems increase volatility, because people can act precipitously on information, all at the same time.
Since municipal bond funds typically represent the more conservative component of an investor's diversified portfolio, Franklin does not invest in derivatives, use leverage or make outsized sector changes, all of which can
potentially increase volatility in municipal bond portfolios.
Much like our Asian equity ETF example above, the ETF did
n't increase the volatility of the local market, it just showed you where that market was valued even when it was closed.
«The elephant in the room they can't discuss is [the election], and if the elephant could stop the Fed, for no political reasons, but because the
election increases volatility in the market and hurts business confidence,» said Harris.
In this paper, Yang and his colleagues show that selling price
data increases volatility and increases the cost of capital (which typically indicates that investments are higher risk).