Standard deviation is a widely used metric to ascertain the investment risk of mutual funds. The concept of Standard Deviation becomes important when you invest in a market-linked product like mutual ...

Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...

How They Differ and Practical Uses in Finance and Investing Henry Hoenig has three decades of journalism experience as a news and economics editor in the U.S. and Asia, handling coverage of global ...

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 ...