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White Paper
How Portfolios Can Impact the Real Economy
February 6, 2023
To help clarify how investors seeking impact through their financial portfolios can affect the direction of corporate decision making, we analyze the two channels of influence – direct control and changing the cost of capital. We argue that there are no other first-order mechanisms for a financial portfolio to have “impact” beyond these. As a real-world example, we apply these insights to the portfolio “net zero” initiative.
White Paper
It’s Not a Bound; It’s an Opinion
November 20, 2020
In the second paper of our “Bonds Today” series, we review the popular belief that bond yields are too close to zero to fall much further and then explain why we disagree.
White Paper
Don’t Hate the Asset; Hate the Constraint
November 20, 2020
What role do bonds play in a portfolio today? We explain why it all depends on investors’ ability to own them in a capital efficient way.
White Paper
Not Risk Parity Funds
February 7, 2018
The source of the recent market disruption may not be fully understood yet, but we can reveal what it wasn’t.
Journal Article
Asset Allocation in a Low Yield Environment
August 21, 2017
In 2016, bond yields dropped to unprecedented low levels in major developed markets. Even in a low rate environment, we think it’s important to diversify across many return sources.
White Paper
Dog Bites Man: In August, Equity Selling in Risk Parity Was a Tiny Fraction of Market Volume
September 21, 2015
Commentators like to believe all price changes are about investors moving capital. But prices can move without trading, or with very little trading, if investors’ assessments of fundamentals or their eagerness to take risk, changes.
White Paper
Can Risk Parity Outperform If Yields Rise?
July 1, 2013
Risk parity investing is not, as some critics say, simply “leveraging bonds.” The evidence suggests that a risk parity portfolio may improve long-term risk-adjusted returns relative to traditional, equity-centric portfolios.
White Paper
Risk Parity, Risk Management and the Real World
April 1, 2011
At its core, risk parity is an argument about the importance of diversification. Long term, we think the best risk parity portfolios will be those that both adopt a dynamic approach to risk management and have a plan to preserve capital in a crisis.