— -- Q: Why is standard deviation used by some investors to measure risk? A: Measuring risk can be a pretty straight-forward exercise. When it comes to figuring the odds of an accident while ...

About the author: Rick Lear is the founder and chief investment officer at Lear Investment Management. The idea of adding to or maintaining fixed-income exposure at a time of heightened market fear ...

Standard deviation, the most widely used measure in Canada to gauge the risk of an ETF or mutual fund, is only one way to crunch past performance numbers. Others drawn from the database of Fundata ...

Analysing how much risk a fund has taken to generate a return is an important filter which investors should consider while choosing funds. In this post, we shall explore Fund Risk Measures tool, which ...

You may have heard people say that investing involves a tradeoff between risk vs. return. And that’s typically true. Investors usually need to take on greater risk to achieve higher returns. But what ...

Rate of return and standard deviation are two of the most useful statistical concepts in business. These two figures will tell you whether a business project is worth the investment and trouble, given ...