Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.

Mark Jahn is a financial writer, editor, consultant, and award-winning economist covering ETFs, stocks, cryptocurrencies, options, and more. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an ...

The mean ping time reveals the typical round-trip duration. Standard deviation indicates how much ping times vary from the mean. More pings may mean more accurate results, but the distribution of ping ...

Today the Standard publishes a ready reckoner calculator to help readers to work out whether they will be better or worse off once all the measures announced come into effect. More than 1.7 million ...

Imagine investing in a promising project, only to realize years later that it’s taking far longer than expected to recoup your initial outlay. Wouldn’t it have been invaluable to know upfront how long ...

Microsoft Excel’s mathematical capabilities often go far beyond the needs of most everyday users. However, Excel’s built-in statistical functions make it an essential tool for anyone who works with ...

In this post, we will show you how to calculate the expiry date in Microsoft Excel. Calculating expiry dates is a common requirement when working with Excel, especially for tracking inventory, ...

But for investors and financial analysts, the raw standard deviation number isn’t always the most helpful. This is where the concept of annualizing standard deviation comes into play. It allows for a ...

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 ...