Market volatility could herald 'serious trouble' for risk parity funds

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Mark Hodgson explains how model-driven, volatility-linked trading strategies such as risk parity can fail should risk spike or predicted correlations between equities and bonds break down.

At a glance:  At its simplest level, model-driven, volatility-linked trading strategies such as risk parity, assume past volatilities and correlations will hold and allocate across equities an...

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