All Risk Briefing articles
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FeaturesBriefing: Tail-risk hedging lessons from the corona crisis
The coronavirus crisis illustrates that equity collar strategies may still have a place for pension funds
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FeaturesGeopolitical risk: The new norm
Geopolitical risk is now the norm and not the exception, and brings with it a rise in volatility,” says Joyce Chang, chair of global research at JP Morgan, adding: “This volatility has tended to create more noise than trend.”
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FeaturesAsset management faces systemic risk questions
When will the next financial crisis hit? Over 80% of respondents among a sample of 500 institutional investors surveyed by Natixis Investment Managers expect a crisis to take place within the next five years.
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Risk: Plane disaster lesson for investors
Stephan Lods says analysing decisions that led to a 1977 airline disaster could help investors better understand risk
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What is risk parity?
All theory is grey, dear friend /And green the golden tree of life. The words of Mephistopheles in the first volume of Goethe’s Faust distinguish academia from the attractions and contradictions of the real world
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Risk parity: Variations on a theme
Risk parity investing can be modified to work better in the current difficult environment
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Tail risk parity
Risk parity approaches can be redesigned to tackle the possibility of extreme market events
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Are risk parity funds staying true to their name?
There is a growing divide between the theory behind risk parity strategies and the investment products on offer
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Risk Parity Funds: Mixed performance despite low volatility targets
Risk parity funds have experienced mixed performance in recent years despite targeting low volatility
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Risk parity strategies making inroads in DC
UK pension schemes are increasingly attracted to risk parity funds. Are trustees and members have enough information to make informed decisions?
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Risk parity cost: The price of protection
How much should a risk parity strategy cost?
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Risk parity and commodity investing
Joseph Mariathasan assesses the role of risk parity strategies in commodities
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Risk parity: The interest rate challenge
Risk parity managers say they are ready to meet the challenge of acute interest rate uncertainty
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Features
The hubris premium
Jeremy Lang and Ben Fitchew explain how company managers’ inherent cognitive biases and environment can influence company risk
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How we run our money: In search of a future-proof ATP
Henrik Gade Jepsen, chief investment officer of ATP, tells Caroline Liinanki why he thinks the fund must adapt its portfolio structure
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Dollar storm ends 10-year FX calm
A full decade of range-bound trade in the dollar has dulled pension investors’ sense of the risks of currency exposure. As Christopher O’Dea reports, all that’s about to change
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Risk-sharing professionals
Gail Moss compares how self-employed professionals are served by specialist collective DC pension funds in three European countries
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Carbon investment: worth the risk?
Gyorgy Dallos argues that the financial risks associated with investing in fossil-fuel companies will increase as they extract in more hazardous places and stricter carbon constraints are enforced
