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, ...

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 ...

Regardless of how you feel, it's wise to see a doctor for an annual physical exam. The same goes for an investment portfolio. Investors should periodically measure performance and analyze the types of ...

Blindly holding a 50/50-stock/bond portfolio doesn’t work anymore. Volatility demands risk mitigation, and the 40-year bond rally has no more room to run. Forget what was normal before. Risk ...

Despite the massive potential to participate in the future of global growth, some investors still believe that emerging markets are risky. I launched Beyond Capital Ventures with this viewpoint as a ...

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 total, 169 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds registered in the US officially list a Treasury bill index as their prospectus benchmark. That selection is indefensible. Every investment has a ...

An investor will take on more risk only if they expect higher returns in compensation. The idea is a cornerstone of financial theory. Yet look around today and you have to wonder. Risks to ...

Paid non-client promotion: Affiliate links for the products on this page are from partners that compensate us (see our advertiser disclosure with our list of partners for more details). However, our ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The process of business risk calculation is identifying potential threats to your business and then analyzing those probabilities to make ...