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Bridgewater Explains Risk Parity… Again

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Mark Melin
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In Bridgewater Associates second research note on risk parity in the month of September alone, Ray Dalio and his crew felt the need to explain the concept once again following a 4.2 percent August loss using the strategy, which also fell in July. While other banks have explained the strategy, most clearly done by Credit Suisse and most notably done by JPMorgan, the Bridgewater research note attempts to clarify the firm's unique implementation of risk parity, according to a memo reviewed by ValueWalk.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.