Expected return and standard deviation can help you analyze investment portfolios. Learn their differences, uses, and ...

An investment’s “expected return” is a critical number, but in theory it is fairly simple: It is the total amount of money you can expect to gain or lose on an investment with a predictable rate of ...

Both organizations and private individuals invest their resources in order to earn profits on their investments. Profitability can be measured using either income or the rate of return. Income is the ...

One simple but powerful method investors can use to assess the risk and reward of a stock portfolio is using the Capital Asset Pricing Model, or CAPM, model for expected returns. The basics of CAPM ...

Wise investors calculate the return they expect, based on the weighted probability of all possible rates of return, before parting with their money. Indeed, no company or individual should invest ...

When discussing bonds with investors, I find that many confuse yield, coupon rate and expected return. I asked my Buckingham Asset Management colleague Jared Kizer to provide an explanation of the ...

What if I told you that one of the most dangerous numbers in the world of investing is 10%? Ask most amateur investors what return they expect from the market, and the answer is almost always the same ...

Risk-free return represents the theoretical yield on a perfect investment with zero risk. Learn how it's calculated and examples like the U.S. Treasury Bill.

The expected return for the Global Market Index (GMI) held steady in November. Today’s revised, long-run forecast for the benchmark — a market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset ...