The Risk in Risk Parity: A Factor-based Analysis of Asset-based Risk Parity

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 Last revised: 28 Dec 2016

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Vineer Bhansali

LongTail Alpha, LLC

Josh Davis

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)

Graham Rennison

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO)

Jason C. Hsu

Research Affiliates; Rayliant Global Advisors; University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business

Feifei Li

Research Affiliates, LLC

Date Written: October 25, 2012

Abstract

The risks embedded in asset-based risk parity portfolios are explored using a simple, economically motivated approach. Such an approach can go a long way toward demystifying and making more explicit the drivers of performance and risks of asset-based risk parity portfolios. Investors in risk parity can use this approach for more robust portfolio construction and for benchmarking and differentiating various risk parity approaches.

Keywords: risk parity, asset allocation, risk factor parity

JEL Classification: G11

Suggested Citation

Bhansali, Vineer and Davis, Josh and Rennison, Graham and Hsu, Jason C. and Hsu, Jason C. and Li, Feifei, The Risk in Risk Parity: A Factor-based Analysis of Asset-based Risk Parity (October 25, 2012). Journal of Investing, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 102-110, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2167058

Vineer Bhansali

LongTail Alpha, LLC ( email )

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Josh Davis

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) ( email )

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Graham Rennison

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) ( email )

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Jason C. Hsu (Contact Author)

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Feifei Li

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