Joanne Hill, Head of Investment Strategy for ProFunds Group, examines more than 50 years of historical returns and provides new insights into the link between volatility and long-term performance in leveraged and inverse ETFs. Hill also discusses a simple rebalancing strategy that can help investors achieve leveraged or inverse index exposure over extended holding periods.

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Stocks in the US are often classified by market capitalization or by style (growth, value or blend). Those differences are not sufficient to create different asset classes, but within the US stocks asset class they have produced different results.

The categories are similar in character and their correlation with the broad US market is high (from the low 80’s to the high 90’s). For those reasons, they just don’t work well as separate asset classes. That said, they may present some element of opportunity for sub-class rebalancing gains due to return rotation within an allocated portfolio.

The chart shows the return for the index of each category for each of 11 calendar years, including 1997-2007. The top half of the chart color codes each year for each index category based on the …

Stocks in the US are often classified by market capitalization or by style (growth, value or blend). Those differences are not sufficient to create different asset classes, but within the US stocks asset class they have produced different results.

The categories are similar in character and their correlation with the broad US market is high (from the low 80’s to the high 90’s). For those reasons, they just don’t work well as separate asset classes. That said, they may present some element of opportunity for sub-class rebalancing gains due to return rotation within an allocated portfolio.

The chart shows the return for the index of each category for each of 11 calendar years, including 1997-2007. The top half of the chart color codes each year for each index category based on the level of return. The bottom half of the chart color codes each year according to