Investors Continue To Buy VIX Despite High Cost

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Rupert Hargreaves
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It’s a well-known fact that VIX ETFs are a poor way of trying to play this key measure of volatility but this doesn’t seem to be stopping retail investors. According to a funds flow report from JP Morgan, published at the end of last week, retail investors continue to plough money into VIX ETFs in an attempt to profit from their belief that the current combination of very low realiaed equity volatility and record high equity prices is unsustainable. 2016 Hedge Fund Letters Investors Continue To Buy VIX Despite High Cost There is some logic in a VIX trade. The…

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for ValueWalk