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 ...

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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 ...