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Well Fischer Black is right again. Or at least that is the conclusion of a new paper by Bhamra and Uppal. They model a market with and without "non redundant derivatives" and find that derivatives do lead to increased return volatility. A few look-ins at their largely theoretical paper: * "Our main result is to show that introducing a new derivative security that improves risk sharing leads

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