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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.
Chief Investment Quarterly
Not Expecting to Hit Your Expected Return? Cash Is the Culprit
September 18, 2019
Today’s lower return targets for pension plans are actually harder to reach. Here’s why.
Chief Investment Quarterly
Actuarial Games Aren't Much Fun for Plan Participants
September 11, 2019
Public pension investment performance has been strong and more plan sponsors are making the contributions they calculate, but funded status has gotten worse. To resolve the funding paradox, we point out some less well known, but important causes of this problem.
Chief Investment Quarterly
Buffett's One Choice Buffet
June 7, 2019
We challenge an assertion in Warren Buffett's latest annual letter and emphasize the need for diversification for pensions and endowments.
Chief Investment Quarterly
Who Knew Annuities Could Be So Exciting?!
May 8, 2019
The debate over annuities in Defined Contribution (DC) plans is so boring that it’s a bipartisan issue. But, their impact on retiree consumption is actually pretty exciting.
Chief Investment Quarterly
You Can’t Hedge, but You Can Diversify
May 8, 2019
Investors may benefit from adding diversifiers to their portfolios, but diversifiers aren’t hedges. Hedges serve a different purpose…unless they’re from Texas.
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.