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    Middle East, fireworks courtesy of North Korea, 50% of the world’s natural gas reserves in the hands of Russia and Iran, pressure on the U.S. dollar and the random exogenous events that impact markets can keep the most optimistic global investor like me awake at night.

    How can an investor mitigate the risk that such events will derail their well thought out portfolio? Having sizable cash positions helps. Diversification into commodities, precious metals, fixed income, hard currencies, energy, safe haven countries like Switzerland may also blunt the blow of volatile global equity markets.

    But there is another tool that can act as a “shock absorber” for your portfolio. There are now ETFs that whose value moves inversely to changes in specific indexes like the S&P

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