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Risk-protecting strategies seen adding to wild market swings

Sums in risk-parity funds and ETFs have been so large that a wave of investor selling will start a wider market rout

Published Wed, Sep 9, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    ON Wall Street, a cure is proving to be as nearly as bad as the disease.

    Investment strategies that promise to insulate investors from risk are being seen as actually having contributed to the wild market swings in recent weeks.

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