Some Big Bond Managers Are Buying Volatility Again

  • Measures of asset price swings make comeback in turbulent week
  • Shorting volatility grew in popularity as a way to boost yield
Photographer: FRANK RUMPENHORST/EPA
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Financial-market volatility has awakened from its doldrums.

It only took the Federal Reserve considering reducing its balance sheet, geopolitical tensions flaring in North Korea and Syria, and a new contender emerging in the French presidential election to make it happen.