Investment Ideas: digging deeper into minimum volatility ETFs, Plus 500 and Literacy Capital

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Minimum volatility redux: the ETFs

Last week, I noted that, as one might expect, US equity benchmarks, such as the S&P 500 Minimum Volatility index, which screen for stocks with lower volatility, have outperformed over the last few weeks. There is, though, a trade-off as you might imagine – sure, low vol stocks will outperform in a turbulent, bear market…