Viewpoints: Speculation and Market Volatility

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 10:10 p.m.

Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, begins with a story on an obscure exchange-traded fund that tracked the inverse of market volatility collapsed after Monday’s more than 4% decline. This leads to a discussion on volatility in general, speculative investments and everyone’s favorite speculative investment--Bitcoin.