Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Call it a case of having your cake and eating it: investors want to hold stocks and reduce risk at the same time. Is that possible? Let’s first look at the equity markets. Markets began getting choppy after the S&P500 reached a new all-time high in mid-May of this year. Fresh worries began to influence market participants as news flow increased surrounding Greece’s ongoing dilemma, slowing growth in China, energy prices, and valuations in the US. Current market volatility...