Macro Risk Premium: A Practitioners Guide

Why Macro Risk Premium Matters Now

Every equity portfolio carries macro risk.


This is not a revelation.


What is less widely appreciated is that this macro risk is not merely a cost to be hedged or a nuisance to be endured. It is a structural source of return — a risk premium that can be identified, measured and harvested.

The concept of risk premia is foundational to finance.
Investors are compensated for bearing systematic risks they cannot diversify away.

This guide presents a framework that solves that measurement problem and explores its consequences.



The findings are significant.



There is a macro risk premium embedded in equities. It is dynamic — it waxes and wanes as market regimes shift. And it represents an engine of return that the vast majority of equity investors are leaving idle.



Download the full Macro Risk Premium Practioners Guide

Author
Mahmood Noorani

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