Mint Investor Education Series: How reducing volatility can sharpen returns

Fear is back.

After years of unnatural calm on global share markets, 2018 began with a sharp reminder that prices can rapidly travel in more than one direction.

Indeed, the most-quoted indicator of investor anxiety – the US stock market Volatility Index (VIX) – went off the charts in the first quarter of the year. The VIX, which tracks the expected near-term price swings of the top 500 US stock index, was up over 80 per cent over the three months to the end of March, according to a Bloomberg report …

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