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volatility drag

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables
volatil-i-ty -drag
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A negative impact on the compound returns from a leveraged investment product caused by an underlying reference value being regularly reset so that to cover any loss in value the appreciation in proportion to it needs to be larger.

Countable; Informal; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

volatility drags (plural)

Synonyms

variance drain volatility tax volatility decay

Questions

What does volatility drag mean?
A negative impact on the compound returns from a leveraged investment product caused by an underlying reference value being regularly reset so that to cover any loss in value the appreciation in proportion to it needs to be larger.

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