Benzinga explains the various measures used by smart investors to measure risk and return more accurately. Investing is about getting the most bang for your buck. Average investors chase high returns, ...

Over the past 150 years, the world of individual investing has seen three significant developments: the brokerage account, ...

I previously wrote an article about my “too hard” pile—the late Charlie Munger’s term for investments that are too complicated to make it into Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio of companies. Some people ...

Investment risk refers to the potential for an investment to experience a loss or deviation from its expected return and can come from a variety of places. All investments carry some level of risk ...

The investment management industry seems to have come full circle. After years of increasing complexity — moving from mutual funds to separately managed accounts (SMAs) and unified managed accounts ...

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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 ...

in investment strategies deserves critical examination. Investors should question what financial institutions are doing and what kinds of risks they truly believe in. Many individuals may not fully ...

Even in a bull market, it's wise for retirees to keep money for the next few years in a conservative bucket to preserve their spending power. Those who haven't yet retired may also want to set some ...

Following the news and watching the markets has been a rollercoaster as of late. With the US economy slowing down and analysts warning of an impending recession, everyone in the financial sector has ...

Return on investment is a metric that measures the amount of profitability earned on a particular investment by comparing its costs to its returns. The purpose of any business is to earn a profit, ...