Press

MPI solutions and research are frequently featured in a number of financial and investment media outlets.

Funds Roundup: Risk Parity’s Risks

Barron’s “Focus on Funds” counts Megan Woods’ “Risk Parity – What’s in a Name” amongst the “best reading in fund investing.” The piece, first appearing in FINalternatives, analyzes performance of risk parity mutual funds, finding a surprising disparity between offerings in terms of estimated asset exposure and implied leverage levels.

Risk Parity: What’s in a Name?

A contributed article in FINalternatives by MPI’s Megan Woods analyzes performance of risk parity mutual funds, finding a surprising disparity between offerings in terms of estimated asset exposure and implied leverage levels. This wide range of perceived risk and exposures defies easy comparison and classification, and warrants investors’ careful consideration when evaluating allocations to the fast growing group. See the blog with full footnotes and sources here.

SEC Probes Retail Hedge Fund Liquidity

In a series of articles on the rise of multi-alternatives published in the May issues of Risk Magazine and Hedge Funds Review (“Hedge Funds for the Masses”), Kris Devasabai utilizes exclusive MPI’s quantitative analysis of a multi-alternatives fund (“Brilliance Bundled in Quantity”) and commentary from Michael Markov on the need for due diligence in the expanding universe of liquid alternatives offerings, a class facing regulatory review and challenges in educating investors on risk and structure.

Barron’s 400 Turns to Tech

A recent article published by Barron’s features commentary from MPI’s Daniel Li in a story on the Barron’s 400 Index and ETF (BFOR) following its biannual rebalancing. Li’s performance analysis shows the “growth-at-a-reasonable-price” ETF’s investment style exhibiting a small, though increasing, value tendency.

Forecasting Daily Performance: Bridgewater’s All Weather Portfolio

FINalternatives publishes a guest article by Michael Markov presenting MPI’s Dynamic Style Analysis (DSA) technique applied to Bridgewater’s All Weather Portfolio.

Monitoring daily hedge fund performance when only monthly data is available

Hedge Funds Review publishes a summarized version of MPI and Prof. Russ Wermer’s award-winning research paper on hedge fund monitoring and risk analysis.

Hedge-Fund Folly

MPI research collaborator Petter Kolm is quoted discussing the evolution of hedge fund replication and the potential role of the smart beta they can deliver in investor portfolios. Find the full article on Barron’s.

MPI Unveils TDF Analysis Tool

Planadviser covers MPI’s launch of TDF Analytics at ASPPA 401k Summit in Las Vegas for target date fund analysis and reporting, noting the industry focus on peer group comparison for performance benchmarking and reporting.