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White Paper
A Better Alternative: Diversify Your Diversifiers
3Q 2022
After the strong performance of stocks and bonds over the last decade may come a long hangover, as investors today face anemic 5-10 year returns in traditional asset classes. Some liquid alternatives represent an attractive option but come with their own challenges. Our solution is to focus on truly diversifying alternatives and diversify across them – resulting in returns that may be less volatile, and a portfolio that may be easier to stick with.
Journal Article
Tail Risk Hedging: Contrasting Put and Trend Strategies
July 8, 2020
The sharp market fall and speedy recovery during the eventful first half of 2020 has kept tail risk hedging topical: investors have both fresh memories of a painful loss and renewed fears of a repeat. We try to offer a balanced overview of the strengths and weaknesses of direct and indirect tail hedging strategies.
Journal Article
Portfolio Protection? It’s a Long (Term) Story…
April 23, 2020
Investors have a natural urge to protect their portfolios from sudden crashes, even though bad outcomes that unfold over longer periods are more detrimental to reaching long-term goals. We show risk-mitigating and diversifying strategies have added value more consistently than options-based hedging over the more important, longer drawdowns.
White Paper
Chasing Your Own Tail (Risk), Revisited
November 19, 2019
As investors turn to addressing the risk of a severely declining market, we summarize five approaches to building a more resilient portfolio.
DC Solutions Series: Defensive Equity, Part 2
February 15, 2017
In part two of this two-part series, we focus on the implementation of a defensive equity strategy within the context of a DC retirement plan.
Journal Article
Embracing Downside Risk
January 15, 2017
This paper shows that downside risk tends to be the main source of long-run returns in equities and other asset classes, and argues that long-term investors may be better off embracing downside risk in certain cases.
Journal Article
Superstar Investors
December 6, 2016
Many famous investors are outspoken about their investment philosophies and use them selectively. We seek to apply their wisdom systematically to determine whether their philosophies, if applied broadly, might still generate “alpha.”
DC Solutions Series: Defensive Equity, Part 1
June 1, 2016
In part one of this two-part series, we focus on the intuition behind defensive equity and present evidence for its efficacy as part of an effective defined contribution retirement plan.
Journal Article
Working Your Tail Off: Active Strategies vs. Direct Hedging
June 1, 2015
Economic theory and empirical evidence support the idea that investors should, over the long term, be compensated for bearing risk.
White Paper
Building a Better Equity Market Neutral Strategy
April 10, 2015
Equity Market Neutral (EMN) is a well-established strategy designed to seek positive performance without exposing investors to the risk of the overall equity market. We explain how systematic EMN works to potentially improve diversification and returns.