In the Margins

Investors favor low-vol funds

July 26, 2016

By The Wall Street Journal

Anxiety about the stock market is prompting investors to pour billions of dollars into low- and minimum-volatility funds. The top-five low-volatility exchange-traded funds added a net $12.5 billion through June 30, even as investors yanked roughly $52 billion from U.S. equity funds, according estimates from Morningstar. Read original story from The Wall Street Journal

 

 

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