

The ETF marketplace underwent a seismic shift at the end of last year with Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) acquiring Innovator Capital Management.

World Investment Advisors bought a new position in Innovator U.S. Equity Buffer ETF - January (BATS: BJAN) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund bought 4,050 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $203,000. World Investment Advisors owned about 0.07%

In this article, we explore the basics of buffer ETFs and share our thoughts on why we think these ETFs could be a powerful tool for managing risk. By selecting a buffer ETF with a predefined payoff profile that best matches one's preferences, one can achieve the equivalent of a customized option strategy to position for a pullback. The ideal scenario for using buffer ETFs would be when the market has performed exceptionally well and is at risk of a potential pullback.

According to a recent study, more than half of the risk-managed strategies that underlie ETFs designed to manage losses during market turbulence failed to fare better than equities in 2022, including several strategies marketed as hedges against black swan-type events.

After a tumultuous year that saw both equity and fixed income allocations receive headwinds from historic inflationary pressures and hawkish central bank policies, investors could continue to see new challenges in the coming year.

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We backtest the discrete volatility model from Lazard Asset Management for a VXX trading strategy. The additional layer of specification yields a stellar return in the in-sample period, but disappoints in the out-of-sample period.

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