# Timeline for How to construct a Risk-Parity portfolio?

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Jul 22, 2020 at 4:35 comment Mr. Chan: that is a shortcut that works in case the covariance matrix is diagonal, it is not the general ERC which takes into account off-diagonal elements. Using this shortcut is sometimes called "naive risk parity" because you are not taking into account correlations only variances.
Apr 23, 2020 at 3:50 comment @SRKX if OP merely wants risk parity/ERC, does it not suffice to simply do $b=1/n$ then $w = \sqrt(b) / \sqrt(diag(\Sigma))$ with $w$ then normalized to sum to 1? It looks like that is all the R package referenced below is doing in the first 6 lines of code: github.com/dppalomar/riskParityPortfolio/blob/master/R/…
Dec 7, 2016 at 22:44 comment Also, does the optimization problem have any constraint like $\sum_{i=1}^{n} w_i = 1$?
Dec 7, 2016 at 22:21 comment What is the reason that the risk contribution of each asset is defined as its weight times corresponding marginal contribution? It makes sense to me that marginal contribution describes how fast total risk changes if the asset's weight changes a small amount. But partial derivative times weight is not intuitive to me when it's used to describe risk contribution, though noting that the sum (and here it happens to be $\sigma(w)$) is directional derivative in mathematics. Any intuition behind this definition?
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Mar 29, 2012 at 6:09 comment @nxstock-trader: you should be able to find something on this page. I haven't used R for optimization for a long time. You can ask on Mathematics or Stack Overflow as well.
Mar 29, 2012 at 1:01 comment I meant what packages/routines to use if I were doing this in R?
Mar 28, 2012 at 22:13 comment You can basically run this through fmincon in MATLAB for example. Not sure what you mean by "techniques". Are you looking for a specific optimization algorithm?
Mar 28, 2012 at 22:09 comment Can you explain what techniques are needed to run that optimization?
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