Damien is a Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at ARIS - Advanced Research Investment Solutions - a $19 billion investment advisor. Damien has over 19 years of experience advising some of the world’s leading institutional investors. Damien spent nearly a decade at Bridgewater Associates, one of the highest-profile hedge funds on the planet, founded by world-famous investor Ray Dalio. In this role, Damien was responsible for managing relationships with the company’s impressive list of clients, an array of family offices, foundations, and pension mandates, ranging from $1 billion to $100 billion in size. We discuss why risk-parity strategies are effective in today’s market environment, and uncover why some risk-parity managers missed their long-touted chance to record significant returns amid the pandemic’s volatility. We conclude by examining ARIS’s industry-first Risk-Parity ETF – Enjoy the interview!...Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the podcast. Want further Opto insights? Check out our daily newsletter: https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/opto/newsletter