This strategy has had a good track record. During the trailing 15- and 10-year periods through March 2016, this fund's underlying index generated about 400 basis points of annualized outperformance ...

Volatility is a fascinating topic primarily because change is constant, but the rate of change is not. This year has been fraught with adjustments in capital markets. The most significant changes have ...

Miranda Marquit has been covering personal finance, investing and business topics for almost 15 years. She has contributed to numerous outlets, including NPR, Marketwatch, U.S. News & World Report and ...

Volatility in the context of stocks and indices refers to the degree of variation or fluctuation in the price of a stock or an index over time. It is a statistical measure that reflects the extent of ...

Supercharged by the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain bottlenecks, high inflation, a scorching hot labor market, and aggressive interest-rate hikes, the Morningstar US Market Index—a proxy for the ...

Statistically, volatility is related to the movement of both positive returns and negative returns. In the context of the equity markets, volatility is often discussed when stocks decline. When they ...

The bulls have ruled the roost on Wall Street for years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite climbing to psychologically important levels. An index responsible for ...

Rising tensions in the Middle East have renewed investor interest in volatility ETFs, which are designed to increase in value as expected market volatility rises. VIX-linked ETFs track short-term ...

Option buyers should be wary when implied volatility appears to be running much higher than historical Today we are taking a closer look at volatility -- specifically, what it means when there is an ...

Stocks are volatile. That much is understood by most investors, but what exactly is volatility and how is it measured for the overall stock market? You may have seen references to something called the ...

VIX measures expected S&P 500 volatility, aiding short-term market outlooks. VIX surges hint at investor anxiety, predicting possible market drops. Though insightful, VIX often overestimates actual ...

Market participants' expectations, as reflected in implied volatility, maybe a more accurate reflection of future price movements than past price movements. When it comes to short-term moves, ...