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«Now, we have low earnings volatility, low GDP volatility, and low interest rate volatility, so investors view things as extremely safe,» says Kalesnik.

So the rising rate environment didn't have much of an effect on portfolio volatility.

We invest in bonds for the Equity and Income Fund in part to dampen volatility, so low interest rates are unhelpful to that effort.

You can potentially get a lot higher rate of return, you can mitigate your volatility, and so on and so forth.

Because their prices can be so sensitive to interest rates, strategists at BlackRock generally prefer stocks outside what they call the «RUST» belt of real estate, utilities, staples and telecoms — where low - volatility funds tend to have bigger concentrations than S&P 500 index funds.

It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.

The subsequent low - volatility screening is designed so that bonds with less risk, as demonstrated by their trading pattern, are selected, while duration and credit rating are held equal.

So in a nutshell: a rating agency makes a mistake, doesn't own up to it, announces the first downgrade of U.S. debt in history, allows said downgrade to leak two days prior to announcement and inadvertently touches off the worst market volatility since the Global Financial Crisis.

I do think we're in for some volatility with this rate increase stuff, so I want to be ready to buy some bargains when they become available.

Instead they are focused on so - called «alternatives,» such as hedge funds, that try to reduce volatility even if it means lower rates of return.

As both a trader & an investor, I've always been impressed with the ability of Irish companies to thrive over the decades, despite substantial IEP / GBP & EUR / GBP rate volatility... so I have no serious concerns on that score.

So if we may need to sell that investment in the next 3 months (the short term), we should probably not invest in a stock fund which has a relatively high rate of volatility over that time period but invest instead in a CD or a money market fund which have relatively lower volatility.

But the exchange rate is currently high, and so is the risk in case of volatility.

From a very bullish start to the beginning of the year, to the recent rise in interest rates and stock market volatility, Andy and Bob have nailed the market action so far this year.

Many traditional sources of energy are more likely to experience price volatility, so the long - term cost - certainty and stabilizing effect of electricity rates from wind farms provide important protection for consumers.

But so far in 2017, CMBS issuers have had perfect conditions for lending, including tighter spreads than those seen in 2016, low interest rates, yield - hungry investors, an absence of volatility, and an ample volume of loans in need of refinancing.