{"id":15060,"date":"2020-09-13T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15060"},"modified":"2020-09-25T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T23:43:08","slug":"ray-dalio-all-weather-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ray-dalio-all-weather-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio Withstands the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the Ray Dalio<\/a> All Weather Portfolio? Why did Dalio set up this portfolio, and did it perform well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio is a trust that Dalio set up as a risk parity fund. The All Weather Portfolio was meant to withstand all market conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to find out more about the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio and its impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Previously, Bridgewater introduced the Pure Alpha<\/a> fund, which is the greatest-returning fund in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalio mentions three more funds that Bridgewater introduced, each in response to a specific investment need. One of these is the All Weather Fund or the All Weather Portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risk Parity Fund<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dalio set up a trust for his family, and he wanted the wealth to last over as many generations as possible. He had seen firsthand how different market environments could destroy wealth, and how difficult it was to predict such situations. Even the best investors fail to do well in all economic environments, when inflation rises and falls, and when the economy grows and shrinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalio\u2019s solution was thus to create four investment strategies, each succeeding in a particular environment\u2014rising inflation with rising growth, rising inflation with falling growth, and so forth. By combining these strategies together, this could do well over time, no matter the economic environment. He called this the \u201cAll Weather Portfolio.” This All Weather fund is also known as \u201crisk parity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1996, he created this fund for himself, and he remained the only investor until 2003, when Verizon\u2019s pension fund called asking for something that would do well in all environments. Bridgewater opened the All Weather Portfolio to its outside clients, and by 2015 it had $80 billion under management. The Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio was a success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio? Why did Dalio set up this portfolio, and did it perform well? The Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio is a trust that Dalio set up as a risk parity fund. The All Weather Portfolio was meant to withstand all market conditions. 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