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Thinking about creating an optimized excerpt featuring a primary keywordPolicy uncertainty feels terrifying, but the academic evidence shows it's a poor guide to what your portfolio will actually do. Here's how to tell the difference between the forecast and the real risk.

The investors who stay calmest during market volatility aren't the bravest. They hold passive investing products that don't ask them to make decisions. Research from Morningstar, Vanguard, and academic studies shows that product design, not temperament, explains why passive fund investors trade less, hold longer, and capture more of their returns. UK flow data from the current Iran-driven selloff confirms the pattern in real time.

The tech sell-off wiped more than $800 billion from software stocks alone. Here are seven lessons evidence-based investors should take from it — and three things it doesn't tell us about what comes next.

The relationship between active funds and volatility has long been debated, with fund managers claiming turbulent markets play to their strengths. 2025's Trump-driven chaos provided the perfect test case – yet 71% of active equity managers still underperformed passive benchmarks. Despite currency swings, sectoral rotations, and policy uncertainty, the 29% success rate barely budged from 2024's 28.8%. Academic evidence spanning 25 years confirms: volatility doesn't save active