The ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF offers 1.5x daily exposure to the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index, suitable for short-term volatility spikes. UVXY is best used as a daily hedge or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Irvine is an investment manager covering market trends. Volatility, a measure of an asset's price fluctuations around its mean ...

The popularity of index investing in recent years is well known. It has even extended to volatility strategies, giving investors the choice between active low volatility managers and low volatility ...

Client interest has risen globally, particularly among defined-benefit pension funds and insurance companies, following whipsaw periods of volatility last year, according to consultants and managers.

After a supremely placid 2024, the stock market is showing a lot more fear thus far in 2025. That’s got wealth managers poised to sooth jittery client nerves and maybe make some portfolio moves too.

The U.S. stock market is unusually quiet after a dramatic start to August, and that's making Wall Street panic - again. Stocks have rebounded quickly after a bruising selloff that shook up global ...

The grinding market price action over the past trading week is mainly attributable to seasonal year-end implied volatility selling during the holiday-shortened trading week. The one thing the rally is ...