Bridgewater Associates
The global macro manager Ray Dalio founded in 1975, known for its Pure Alpha and All Weather strategies and its Daily Observations client research. Its public research and Dalio's own explainers give outsiders a clear look at how a top-down macro shop thinks about debt, policy and portfolio balance.
What they publish
How the Economic Machine Works
Ray Dalio's animated 31-minute explainer of how credit, productivity and the short- and long-term debt cycles drive the economy. It is the quickest way to absorb the framework behind Bridgewater's macro investing.
Video
Foundational
One-off, released September 2013
Bridgewater Research and Insights
The public research library of the largest global macro hedge fund: notes, call excerpts and podcasts from Bridgewater's co-CIOs on regimes, policy, AI and how to build portfolios that hold up across environments.
Research
Advanced
Several pieces a month