Market risk: Gambling on volatility

FT Big Read

• Episode: Market risk: Gambling on volatility
• Website: FT Big Read
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• Duration: 00:12:51
• Published: 2017-04-19 19:33

The Vix index is known as Wall Street's 'fear gauge' and was once just a measure of market movements. But volatility has itself become a tradable asset and financial engineers have used the index to create high-risk products and strategies that can act as siren calls to unwary investors, says Robin Wigglesworth

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