Risk parity
Risk parity strategies with risk factors
The authors consider risk parity in portfolio trading and compare the performance of RP portfolios against traditional value- and equal-weighted portfolios, finding RP strategies to outperform the others in most cases.
Can risk parity ride out the storm of correlated asset chaos?
High interest rates, spiking inflation and correlation breakdowns are testing risk parity strategies
Dynamic rebalancing of a risk parity investment portfolio
The authors examine the All-Weather portfolio in relation to other popular portfolios and investigate the impact of various static and dynamic portfolio-rebalancing strategies on the All-Weather portfolio.
Keep risk parity simple, stupid
In times of volatility, simpler risk parity strategies may outperform more elaborate counterparts
Uncertain risk parity
This paper treats covariance as uncertain in order to find a risk parity weighting that does not count on perfectly optimized hedges and is robust to changes in regime.
Second-order risk of alternative risk parity strategies
In this paper, the authors provide theoretical and empirical evidence of the contribution of second-order risk to realized volatility for alternative risk parity strategies.
Bridgewater co-CIO on risk parity, correlations and contagion
All Weather fund’s approach remains poorly understood, says Prince
Denmark’s ATP warns of inflation threat to risk parity
Pension fund cuts risk to guard against correlation switchback
Fears persist about forced unwind from ‘implicit’ short vol funds
February sell-off could presage a bigger slide if correlations change, buy-siders say
A risk-based approach to construct multi asset portfolio solutions
In this paper, the authors introduce an approach to cluster asset classes by correlation distance and then outline how these results can be used to design portfolios that are optimal in a group risk parity (GRP) framework.
Volatility trap: how gamma roused a market monster
Rates market is exposed to some of the same factors that caused equity volatility to explode in February
A generalized risk budgeting approach to portfolio construction
This paper proposes a generalized risk budgeting approach to portfolio construction.
What the ‘tech wreck’ doesn’t tell us about systematic investing
June sell-off might reveal more about discretionary investors watching factors
Sponsored video: Jodi Richard, US Bank
Jodi Richard, chief operational risk officer, discusses the bank being named Bank of the year in the 2017 Operational Risk Awards.
Black–Litterman, exotic beta and varying efficient portfolios: an integrated approach
This paper brings Black–Litterman optimization, exotic betas and varying starting portfolios together into one complete, symbiotic framework.
Agnostic risk parity: taming known and unknown unknowns
This paper offers a new perspective on portfolio allocation, which avoids any explicit optimization and instead takes the point of view of symmetry.
The risk-parity fire sale that didn’t happen
Have fears of a co-ordinated sell-off by risk-parity funds been proven wrong?
Risk budgeting and diversification based on optimised uncorrelated factors
Meucci, Santangelo and Deguest introduce a risk decomposition method based on minimum-torsion bets
A unified framework for risk-based investing
This paper aims to help investors better understand the commonalities and differences between risk-based portfolio strategies in the investment industry.
Diversifying risk parity
Volume 16, Issue 5 (2014)