As could be expected,
volatility of the portfolio significantly increased during the financial crisis.
Not exact matches
As you can see when looking at the other asset allocations, adding more fixed income investments to a
portfolio will slightly reduce one's expectations for long - term returns, but may
significantly reduce the impact
of market
volatility.
If you assume that a diversified
portfolio of US Stocks, International Stocks, Small Capitalization Stocks, and some Bonds will
significantly increase returns and reduce
volatility you may be surprised to learn, that recently the stock funds are quite highly correlated.
When we compare the 8 ETF
portfolio to a 50/50
portfolio consisting
of 50 % SPY and 50 % AGG, we see that the Permanent 8
portfolio significantly outpaced a 50/50
portfolio since 2008 with about the same
volatility:
My expectation was that the
portfolio drawdown and volatility would be reduced, since the «Permanent ETF Portfolio» had a drawdown of -26.52 % (still significantly better than SPY's 51.88 % over the same period) and volatility o
portfolio drawdown and
volatility would be reduced, since the «Permanent ETF
Portfolio» had a drawdown of -26.52 % (still significantly better than SPY's 51.88 % over the same period) and volatility o
Portfolio» had a drawdown
of -26.52 % (still
significantly better than SPY's 51.88 % over the same period) and
volatility of 12.1 %.
When we compare the 8 ETF
portfolio to a 50/50
portfolio consisting
of 50 % SPY and 50 % AGG, we see that the Permanent 8
portfolio significantly outpaced a 50/50
portfolio since 2008 with about the same
volatility:
An analysis
of volatility portfolio performance
of common stock on the major US exchanges from 1968 to 2015 shows low
volatility stocks deliver
significantly higher excess returns.
The fund
significantly underperformed its reference ETF
portfolio in terms
of both a lower cumulative return and higher
volatility.
The ETP
significantly underperformed its reference ETF
portfolio in terms
of both the cumulative return and
volatility.
Though static allocation
of VIX futures can reduce
portfolio volatility and offer downside protection compared with the broad - based, unhedged S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, it can drag down
portfolio performance
significantly, due to the high cost
of rolling VIX futures.
The
portfolio of half Canadian and half US stocks returned more than that average — about 10.3 % — and with
significantly lower
volatility than either
of the two countries individually.
Between 1970 and 2016, a
portfolio of half Canadian and half U.S. stocks showed
significantly lower
volatility than either
of the two countries individually.
The
volatility of the reference
portfolio, at about 22 %, was
significantly lower than that
of the fund.