Our paper examines a comprehensive suite of
volatility measures including actual volatility, volatility implied by option pricing, beta, credit default spreads, preferred stock yields and earnings price ratios.
Not exact matches
Yet, while duration is higher by one year, the maximum monthly
volatility is about the same; neither exceeds 2.5 % for the period
measured, a period that
includes some of the most volatile bond market conditions since the 1970s.
Canadian stocks (as
measured by the S&P / TSX 60 Index), on the other hand, had returned 3.72 percent and 8.45 percent respectively during the same time periods albeit at a much higher
volatility including a significant stock market crash.
We did not
include quality
measures related to the quality of corporate governance or practitioner - oriented
measures of investment quality, e.g., earnings - to - price ratios or low
volatility.
Originally developed by Mr. Wilder, the ATR indicator
measures volatility of any financial instrument,
including forex.
This is true using a variety of risk
measures,
including volatility.
Investors are so keen for their fund managers to maintain a steady, smooth investment return that conventional risk
measures now
include volatility.
Common risk
measures in equities
include the
volatility of price return and beta
measuring price sensitivity to market.
Beta becomes a less valuable
measure of
volatility if calculation methodology does not match investor needs, if correlation to the benchmark index is low or if tail events are incorrectly
included or excluded from calculation.
Key Metric # 1 (shown in the Key Metrics section of this report)
includes a
measure of rate
volatility using a 10 - point scale.
The other outcome
measures are not
included due to
volatility in measurement (counties with small populations see large changes in their rates) or changes in how the indicator is
measured over time (the MAP tests have not remained consistent in the last several years).