No free lunch in asset allocation

In his editorial for the November/December issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Richard Ennis confidently consigns the term “uncorrelated return” to the scrap heap of asset allocation lingo, reminding readers there is no free lunch in asset allocation, and that in order to collect the risk premium, investors must also bear the risk.

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