Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Looking beyond returns, a screen of active equity mutual funds based on alpha and standard deviation reveals five schemes that combined strong benchmark outperformance with relatively lower volatility ...

Returns alone don't tell the full story of a mutual fund. Here's how alpha, beta, Sharpe ratio and other key metrics can help investors assess risk and performance.

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 ...