Standard deviation is a widely used metric to ascertain the investment risk of mutual funds. The concept of Standard Deviation becomes important when you invest in a market-linked product like mutual ...

Standard deviation is a measurement of market volatility. Learn how investors use standard deviation in the MoneySense Glossary. Standard deviation (σ) is an investing metric used to measure the ...

How is Standard Deviation calculated for a mutual fund portfolio? Or can it be done only for individual funds? When calculating for the entire portfolio, how do you give weightages? No concepts are ...

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 ...