%0 Journal Article %A Khalid (Kal) Ghayur %A Ronan G. Heaney %A Stephen C. Platt %A Joanna Wrighton %T Practical Applications of Low-Volatility Investing: Balancing Total Risk and Active Risk Considerations %D 2014 %R 10.3905/pa.2014.1.4.051 %J Practical Applications %P 1-4 %V 1 %N 4 %X Low-Volatility Investing: Balancing Total Risk and Active Risk Considerations Khalid (Kal) Ghayur Ronan G. Heaney Stephen C. Platt Investors have become more interested in low-volatility investment strategies since the worldwide financial crisis revealed the risks of rollercoaster markets, says Khalid Ghayur , Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Westpeak Global Advisors . But investors have a hard time implementing low-volatility investing within the constraints of their active risk budgets, he notes.In Low-Volatility Investing: Balancing Total Risk and Active Risk Considerations , from the Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Portfolio Management , present a new portfolio construction technique aimed at allowing investors stay within their active risk budgets by striking a better balance between total risk and relative risk.The article was co-written by Ghayur, Ronan Heaney , Partner and Director of Research at Westpeak Global Advisors, and Stephen Platt , Partner and Director of Portfolio Management at Westpeak. %U https://pa.pm-research.com/content/iijpracapp/1/4/1.15.full.pdf