About the author: Rick Lear is the founder and chief investment officer at Lear Investment Management. The idea of adding to or maintaining fixed-income exposure at a time of heightened market fear ...

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 ...

How They Differ and Practical Uses in Finance and Investing Fact checked by Stella Osoba Suppose you're choosing between two jobs. You're told both pay an average of $5,000 a month, but there's a ...