With the S&P 500 off about 8 percent to start the year, advisors and investors may be left thinking that an early case of election year volatility is afoot. Conventional wisdom dictates that stocks can struggle in presidential election years and that those struggles can be more pronounced in open elections, or years in which an incumbent is not defending the White House. That is the case this year.
Investors' treatment of exchange-traded funds to start 2016 indicates a desire for safe-haven assets. Five of this year's top 10 asset gathering funds are bond funds. Just three are equity ETFs, two of which are the Utilities SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLU) and the iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility (iShares Trust (NYSE: USMV)). Conversely, all of 10 of this year's worst ...
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