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How Does PHDG Work?

January 29, 2024July 10, 2012 by Vance Harwood

An ideal volatility investment would hold its value during quiet times and then ride volatility up as the market panics. Barclays’ VQT and Invesco’s PHDG are two Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) that are designed to fill this need. These two products use the same methodology but differ in that VQT does not distribute dividends, effectively automatically reinvesting dividends, while PHDG distributes any dividends quarterly. The …

How to go long on the VIX index

April 16, 2022January 2, 2010 by

Unlike the S&P 500 or Dow Jones Industrial Index, there’s no way to directly invest in the CBOE’s VIX® index. Some really smart people have tried to figure out a way, but there’s just no way to do it directly with something like a VIX index fund. Instead, you have to invest in a security that attempts to track VIX. None of them do a great …