Bridgewater's Risk Parity Strategy: A Model For Navigating (All) Capital Markets

Bridgewater's Risk Parity Strategy: A Model for Navigating (All) Capital Markets by Balint Anton Francisc

As Thomas Barrack, founder of Colony Capital, stated very accurately in his keynote speech to the Principal Investment Conference in 2008, great investors understand the fabric of the culture they are in. In other words, they are able to make sense of what people need and want. In addition to this ‘magic’ quality of sensing what society consumes you need to know where to look and how to search for that information. The problem is that the information you have is not the information you want; the information you want is not the information you need and the information you need is not the...