{"id":51839,"date":"2016-03-15T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51839"},"modified":"2016-03-15T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:43:16","slug":"alpha-is-not-a-risk-management-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/alpha-is-not-a-risk-management-technique.html","title":{"rendered":"Alpha is Not a Risk Management Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Harvest) Investors often focus their analysis on benefits.  In the finance industry, we\u2019ve distilled this down to a single metric: alpha.Benefits and risk require separate analysis.  Increasing benefits does not necessarily reduce risk or even leave it unchanged. In practice, increasing alpha can actually increase risk in many portfolios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvst.com\/posts\/58984-alpha-is-not-a-risk-management-technique\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) Investors often focus their analysis on benefits. In the finance industry, we\u2019ve distilled this down to a single metric: alpha.Benefits and risk require separate analysis. Increasing benefits does not necessarily reduce risk or even leave it unchanged. In practice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51840,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions\/51840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}