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"The biggest risk we face is funding volatility," Deverell said.
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Accounting rules have brought pension-fund volatility onto the corporate balance-sheet, encouraging the trend.
The managers try to limit the funds' volatility by holding as many as 60 stocks in each, but even so, he said, "I've told investors openly, biotech is really risky".
My hunch is Janus owns them to reduce fund volatility.
Given a mutual funds volatility, we create a portfolio of the S&P 500 futures and a money market account that exactly replicates the fund volatility.
We've also adjusted the funds' returns for risk by comparing the funds' volatility to the U.S. Treasury Bill Index.
Management obviously has dictated to its money managers to keep fund volatility no more than the index along with its R2 ratio.
Given the volatility of the S&P 500 futures, we lever the mutual fund volatility up or down(by borrowing and lending respectively) to exactly match the S&P 500 volatility.
In 2012, for example, new start-up hedge funds came to market focusing on a diverse range of investment strategies, including FMG Mongolia Fund (emerging markets), Context BH Partners LP (equity long/short), Citizen Entertainment Fund Ltd (fixed income), Ancora Merger Arbitrage Fund LP (merger arbitrage) and 36 South Black Eyrar Fund (volatility trading).
But assets in stock funds that RiskMetrics measures as aggressive, based on the funds' past volatility levels, actually rose to $1.3 trillion today from $430 billion last May.
He points out that fund manager Robert Hagstrom at the Legg Mason Focus Trust Primary Fund foctx, where the top four stocks comprise over 50% of fund assets, makes no secret of the fund's volatility.
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