For example, the largest U.S. pension, California Public Employees» Retirement System, is considering more than doubling its bond allocation to reduce risk and
volatility as the bull market in stocks approaches nine years.
Not exact matches
«While common wisdom has it that higher
volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [
bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates,
as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.
While the selloff can be explained by position unwinding, the simple fact is that
as we approach the 10th year of the
bull market,
volatility is likely to pick up.
«They do not lower your
volatility — not
as bonds are exiting a 30 - year
bull market.
Retail securities tend to track the market
as a whole but with a greater degree of
volatility, resulting in stronger gains during
bull markets but larger losses during bear markets.
And so, if you recognize that you're in a
bull market while you still can have
volatility and should, you should expect a lot of that
volatility is
volatility, the happy kind
as opposed to the unhappy kind, and you get these big returns.
As VIX is an index for implied
volatility (or expected
volatility), in
bull markets (markets moving up) it tends to move down, and in bear markets (markets moving down) it tends to move up.
Volatility was subdued throughout 2017 and stock markets rewrote the record books
as the
bull market marched on...
ProShares UltraShort 20 + Year Treasury ETF (NYSEMKT: TBT) has been a popular choice for those trying to time a reversal in the
bull market for bonds, but shares have fallen 16 % in the past year
as the combination of
volatility and steady declines in yield hurt the inverse leveraged ETF.
Retail securities tend to track the market
as a whole but with a greater degree of
volatility, resulting in stronger gains during
bull markets but larger losses during bear markets.