{"id":11392,"date":"2015-10-13T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:53:11","slug":"investors-should-consider-selling-volatility-as-an-asset-class-by-cory-burnell-cfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=11392","title":{"rendered":"Investors Should Consider Selling Volatility As An Asset Class ~ By Cory Burnell, CFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Springs, CA&#8230;.(Local Financial Adviser Cory Burnell recently contributed to one of Forbes Magazine&#8217;s 10 Best Lists)  The following is his first paragraph and a link over to the Forbes piece&#8230;&#8221;Traders primarily invest in these exchange-traded products to profit from a decline in the Volatility Index, known as the VIX, and from the roll yield common in the VIX futures markets (called contango). However, there\u2019s an opportunity here for long-term investors too because that roll yield produces significant returns over time. For example, VelocityShares Daily Inverse Short-Term ETN (XIV) launched on November 30, 2010 and since that time it is up a whopping 143% compared to almost 76% for the SPDR S&#038;P 500 ETF (SPY), as of September 29, 2015.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/trangho\/2015\/10\/04\/10-best-etf-buys-of-the-decade-from-10-investment-pros\/2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/forbesarticle.jpg\" alt=\"forbesarticle\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/forbesarticle.jpg 400w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/forbesarticle-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/forbesarticle-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Springs, CA&#8230;.(Local Financial Adviser Cory Burnell recently contributed to one of Forbes Magazine&#8217;s 10 Best Lists) The following is his first paragraph and a link over to the Forbes piece&#8230;&#8221;Traders primarily invest in these exchange-traded products to profit from a decline in the Volatility Index, known as the VIX, and from the roll yield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,149,1,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-financial","category-news","category-san-andreas","category-valley-springs","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/forbesarticle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}