How Expected Return and Standard Deviation Impact Your Portfolio

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

Beyond standard deviation: How skewness and kurtosis capture market extremes

Standard deviation, while common, inadequately captures investment risk due to its equal treatment of gains and losses and ...
Investopedia

Standard Deviation Formula and Uses, vs. Variance

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, ...
Morningstar

Standard Deviation: In Defense of an Often-Dismissed Investing Metric

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 ...