Three tips for navigating market volatility
Recent market volatility can represent a challenge to clients’ nerves – behavioural finance expert Greg Davies has three top tips for smooth investing in the turbulence.
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5 steps to deal with market volatility
With low volatility having been the norm for nearly three years, the sharp drop experienced by global markets earlier this week awakened some fight or flight responses. AJ Bell offers five lessons to help investors cope with market volatility.
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Bets on stock market volatility might be long term losers
Investors have been warned to steer clear of volatility ETFs or risk entering a “long term money losing opportunity,” as interest in the vehicles steadily rises.
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Shift to defensive assets urges Architas
Architas has warned that investors should begin shifting towards defensive assets before volatility strikes markets in the latter half of 2017.
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ANALYSIS: Return of volatility concerns wealth managers
The US airstrike on Syria and disappointing jobs data immediately brought down markets last week, and investment managers are beginning to protect their portfolios against more of the same.
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Ten years on, are investors repeating the mistakes of 2007?
Investors risk being lulled into a false sense of security in the current low-volatility environment, according to Brooks Macdonald’s Niall O’Connor.
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Volatility here to stay in the age of the ‘Toblerone’ market
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? As I write, the masses are rebelling against a momentous decision that has thrown the free world off its axis… and that’s just the changing shape of the Toblerone.
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US equities: If you can’t beat them, join them
European investors have been dismissing US equities as too expensive for a couple of years. But as the S&P 500 continues to outperform other equity markets, appetite for the asset class is again on the rise.
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Patience and portfolio discipline will reward investors
Investors will be rewarded for their patience if they maintain portfolio discipline and don’t let short-term volatility cloud their long-term investing goals, says JP Morgan Asset Management.
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Time for low volatility strategies, says Robeco
Volatile markets characterise 2016, and investors are warming to investment strategies that reduce risks, according to Tom Naaijkens, client portfolio manager for quant equities at Robeco.
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ANALYSIS: Smart investors may be buying rather than selling this summer
As the month of May trundles into view investors will be thinking about the traditional summer-proofing of portfolios, but the shrewdest among them may see more opportunity than danger.
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The evolving science of portfolio construction
Post the 2008 financial crisis, many investors made the grim discovery that a relatively poor job had been done about the risk management of their portfolios, says Nigel Watson, sales director, VAM Funds.