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Investors warned on VIX futures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Investors should stay away from VIX futures as a passive standalone strategy, one manager has warned, saying that a flexible approach to buying volatility is necessary to avoid suffering high carry and rolling costs. When volatility hit the headlines ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... shares up 4.9% and Italians up 4.35); Yields on 10-year Spanish and Italian bonds sank by 38 bps and 25 bps, respectively; the VIX index dropped by 12.1% to 15.60 - they liked what they heard. For unlike his July "whatever it takes" announcement, this ...

Buying volatility a viable alternative

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
Futures on the VIX exchange can allow funds to diversify portfolios by buying volatility, said Chris Thompson, Portfolio Manager, Advance Asset Management. Thompson said that a lot of alternative investment strategies involve "going long" on volatility ...

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... crisis, the limping growth in America and/or a hard landing in China, the indicator of fear in the financial markets - the VIX index - has actually fallen from a high of 26.66 on the 1st of June this year to a 62-month low of 13.7 this month. It settled ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... would have the will and the ways to resuscitate growth and confidence. We didn't know back then. That's why we witnessed the VIX "fear" index shoot up to an all-time high of 80.06 back in October 2008. Last night, the VIX closed at a reading of 15.32 ...

Long-volatility a loss-maker: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... Strategies for Portfolio Construction, looks at the range of asset protection strategies for volatile markets that are based on the VIX volatility index and assesses their suitability for Australian investors. It found that a portfolio which uses a specific ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... lest fiscal and monetary authorities produce another one of those bag of goodies. While there's little measurable fear - the VIX index had been below 20 since the end of last month - investors remain on wait mode. Last Friday, it was the US - and its ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... elections and Frau Angie proposed allowing members to exit the eurozone without losing EU membership. That was a scare. Even the VIX index reflected this. It jumped to 36.2 on that day. The index jumped to 26.7 last Friday - rising but still not quite ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... want to go all in while the coin is still up in the air. There's little confidence but neither is there extreme fear. The VIX index tells us so. It closed 14.8% higher overnight to 24.1 - high but not as high as the 40 plus readings seen last August ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... spend more and investors invest more. Sadly, the opposite is happening now. There's fear in the air and it's rising - the VIX index closed above 25 last week from a low of 14.26 barely two months ago. An ominous sign that markets may be getting what ...