2022 has been a challenging year for some of the largest risk-parity funds. RISK.net’s Luke Clancy covers MPI research “Is 2022 All Bad Weather For Risk Parity?” in his article Keep risk parity simple, stupid – Risk.net (subscription required)
Risk parity strategies can look very different from each other in implementation. They may have different risk budgets, risk targets, asset class buckets or even different definitions of risk. In this particular period, however, the disparity in performance is staggering.
RIABiz article “Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff oversaw the insertion of leverage, hence risk into portfolios, which has been unrewarding in this market“ covers MPI’s risk parity research and interviews Megan Woods, MPI’s research director.
“Estimates of daily changes in leverage at risk parity mutual funds, one group of volatility-targeting investors pinpointed as contributors to deleveraging last month, suggest some funds cut leverage sharply but others didn’t“, writes Faye Kilburn about MPI’s research in her Risk.net article.
How have risk parity funds actually acted (or reacted) during the current crisis? We use our Stylus Pro system to estimate changes in allocations and leverage levels.
2017 Yale endowment report rebuts Warren Buffett’s 2016 Berkshire Hathaway investor letter that “financial ‘elites’”, including endowments, are better off investing in low fee index products and not “wasting” money on active managers’ hefty fees. We did our own calculations and here’s what we found…
Four of the other five fund families with holdings vs. returns-based discrepancies are of a similar nature in that they have investments in derivatives, leveraged funds or absolute return funds, which affect the holdings tally. In each of these cases, DSA provides a much closer estimate to the intended systematic exposure.
We demonstrate the advantages of using returns-based analysis in determining the effective glide-paths of Target-Date Funds vs. the stated ones
Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) funds, which seek to take advantage of changing market conditions while maintaining a globally diversified portfolio, have suffered recent underperformance. MPI was asked by Institutional Investor to look at some of the funds that have received the most interest from investors.
We use Bridgewater All Weather, one of the largest hedge funds, to illustrate how to quantitative techniques could provide investors with a more dynamic understanding of the potential fund behavior intra-month using only monthly fund data.