Like their large and small-cap peers, mid-caps have not been insulated from the recent downturn and rise in volatility endured by U.S. equity markets.
However, as has been the case with other cap spectrums, including smaller stocks, low volatility exchange traded funds emphasizing mid-caps have been significantly less bad than their traditionally-weighted counterparts.
In the case of low volatility mid-cap ETF, the PowerShares S&P MidCap Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSE: XMLV) has that particular market niche to itself. Over the past 90 days, XMLV is off about 2.9 percent, but that is nearly 500 basis points better than the S&P MidCap 400 Index, 300 basis points better than S&P MidCap 400 Growth Index and more than 700 basis points superior to the woeful 9.95 percent lost by ...
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