Discover essential metrics like alpha, beta, and Sharpe ratio for evaluating mutual fund risk-return tradeoffs. Learn how to assess potential returns and risks effectively.

Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.

The present-day bear smashed the idea that one might lower risk by diversifying across asset classes. Specifically, investors were unable to escape the ripple effect of a credit crunch in bonds, the ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

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