The coronavirus pandemic could drive permanent changes in standards for remote work and data management. According to Morningstar, the WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD) is among the top five performing funds in the U.S. Technology category so far in 2020. Jeremy Schwartz and Kara Marciscano discuss WCLD as a potential way for investors to position for long-term growth in the cloud computing industry.
Investors often look for ways to enhance income, lower a portfolio’s overall expected volatility. Alejandro Saltiel focuses on how a specific type of option strategy employed in the WisdomTree CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Strategy Fund (PUTW) seeks to enhance portfolios during periods of market volatility.
The S&P 500 reached bear market territory when it dropped to 2,702 on March 11. And so far, the pain hasn’t stopped. Jeremy Schwartz provides a hedge for investors who want to creep into stocks but don’t want full market exposure: put writing.
While the inverted yield curve has been getting a lot of attention among bond investors, there is another curve that inverted recently, and that warrants attention from asset allocators in Q4 2019: the VIX curve. Gaurav Sinha discusses how to protect your portfolio in times of heightened volatility.
Experienced investors usually do not confuse lack of market volatility with stability. Markets are inherently volatile, which can lurk behind the prevailing calm. How should investors deal with rising volatility?
Last year finally broke the nine-year bull run in equity markets, a length that has been matched only twice since 1950s. Gaurav Sinha covers what measures investors could have taken to help avoid the downturn in equity markets that we saw in the fourth quarter of 2018.
U.S. equity markets have delivered strong results this year, but those gains were quickly erased in October. With increased volatility, more investors are looking for ways to protect their portfolios. But one strategy may help add value during these turbulent times.