Research brief 013

Diversification starts with what stocks respond to.

MINGLE builds a graph from shared exposures. The gains are promising, but crisis protection remains limited.

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Two stocks can move together for reasons that a raw correlation cannot separate.

The MINGLE study asks whether a portfolio should group stocks by their underlying risk exposures rather than simply by recent co-movement. It learns a factor model and a network of related assets together, allowing each estimate to constrain the other.

The investment case is better diversification with less sensitivity to noisy relationships. That is a different claim from predicting the next market drawdown.

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