Volatility: Look at it another way
Atlantic House Total Return Fund
History tells us that the current decade could be set to become the most volatile in a generation. So how can investors prepare their portfolios for the more frequent and significant moves that characterise markets today?
Our approach on the Total Return Fund is to embrace volatility itself.
Used extensively in derivative pricing, ‘implied’ volatility – a measure of the expected FUTURE volatility of a variable – involves drawing on volatility’s consistent and historically low correlation to traditional asset classes. Additionally, market predictions of volatility tend to be overstated, delivering opportunity.
We embrace volatility in the Atlantic House Total Return Fund using an innovative, proprietary volatility overlay that seeks to protect the equity exposure in the portfolio at times when markets exhibit the most stress, but without unduly sacrificing performance when volatility is low.
The overlay strategy has two main components:
Systematic: Providing a constant level of cost-efficient exposure to implied volatility
Signals-based: Triggered when short-term indicators suggest volatility is likely to increase. It aims to provide a layer of protection as a significant event arises.
By combining these 2 different volatility strategies as part of the overlay, it is possible to manage the trade-off between safeguarding the portfolio in times of market stress and minimising the cost of that protection in low volatility markets.
During a recent webinar, Fund Manager Tom Boyle explains how he embraces volatility in the Atlantic House Total Return Fund, which, when harnessed effectively, can be a powerful diversifier.
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The Atlantic House Total Return Fund is a sub-fund of GemCap Investment Funds (Ireland) plc, an umbrella type open-ended investment company with variable capital, incorporated on 1 June 2010 with limited liability under the laws of Ireland with segregated liability between sub-funds.
GemCap Investment Funds (Ireland) plc is authorised in Ireland by the Central Bank of Ireland pursuant to the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 352 of 2011) (the “UCITS Regulations”), as amended.
Gemini Capital Management (Ireland) Limited, trading as GemCap, is a limited liability company registered under the registered number 579677 under Irish law pursuant to the Companies Act 2014 which is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Its principal office is at Ground Floor, 118 Rock Road, Booterstown, A94 V0Y, Co. Dublin and its registered office is at 1 WML, Windmill Lane, Dublin 2, D02 F206. GemCap acts as both management company and global distributor to GemCap Investment Funds (Ireland) plc.
GemCap UK Limited (FRN 924419) is an appointed representative of Connexion Capital LLP (FRN 480006), which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and provides distribution oversight services to GemCap acting as global distributor and is responsible for the oversight of all distribution arrangements for the sub-fund.