Treasure Hunter: Reward your Risk (FTSE 100)
The low volatility anomaly highlights that investors are not rewarded for bearing risk: low risk stocks tend to outperform their risky peers.The latest methods to build diversified portfolios (Minimum variance, Equal Risk Contributions (ERC), Risk Parity) take advantage of the low volatility anomaly. Fundamentally those techniques completely ignore expected returns and focus only on risk.However, the devil is in the details: it seems that much of the anomaly can be explained by the poor performance of high-volatility stocks, not the outperformance of low-volatility stocks.Millesime-IS' risk-ba...