The potential addition of a small, rebalanced position in a strategy such as Short VIX could act to diminish the risk of
underperformance in rising markets, and provides a potentially coherent way to capture two complementary sources of behavioral outperformance.
Not exact matches
Few of the general reasons for the
underperformance may be
rising production / operational cost, declining
market share, lack of new product / services, change
in competitive dynamics or inefficient management.
(If international small - cap managers had been correctly compared to an index that included emerging
markets, the rate of
underperformance would
rise to the 70 to 80 percent range, which is
in line with the other categories.)