Over the past decade volatility investing has emerged as a new asset class. Dominicé’s Investment Team has carried out an analysis of the risk-return profile of long volatility and relative value volatility strategies and their added value to an equity portfolio.

In this article, Hedgeweek looks into how Dominicé’s volatility strategy navigates the uncertainty to deliver consistent returns over the past 16 years and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the current macroeconomic context.

Dominicé’s Volatility Strategy was featured in the Financial Times article that highlights the best performing tail risk and defensive volatility hedge funds this year. The recent market sell-off triggered by the COVID-19 crisis presented excellent opportunity for some of the tail hedge strategies to deliver extraordinary returns. The protection strategies however may be costly to run in the long term. Among the strategies that exhibit defensive nature and are profitable throughout the market cycle the article mentions Dominicé’s Volatility Strategy that delivered 21% return in March, and made money 14 out of its 16 years since inception.