Risk Parity: Just another name for Portfolio Insurance?

Risk Parity - like Smart Beta or Factor Investing - is old wine in new bottles. A Bull market always needs a rationale to justify the irrational, Greed has overcome Fear. In reality all is backed by a tide of easy money.
Pondering The Real Perils Of Risk Parity Portfolios | Zero Hedge

Compliance hiring at fever-pitch!

My (pessimistic) prognosis of  'One Compliance Kommissar behind every productive Staffer' is soon (already?) sad reality. Wish the same could be said about politicians and civil servants! Did Ancient Rome not die after suffocationg on legal and bureaucratic overkill?
Deutsche Bank hiring in compliance - Business Insider

Deutsche Bank: Bye Bye London? but not because of Brexit

The track record of the bank is nothing to write home about. The huge build-up in London, from an insignificant commercial branch in the mid 1980s - has probably cost more than it ever earned the bank. So move back 'home' may be sensible, but not because of Brexit!
DEUTSCHE BANK EXEC: We may need to move 4,000 UK staff to Europe because of Brexit