The hedge-fund return patterns are more important than historical returns. In our first article about hedge funds for Financial Advisor, we indicated that the pattern of returns was more important ...

Over the long run, 55% of US stocks underperformed US Treasury Bill returns, meaning that more than half of individual stocks did worse than the safest government-backed investments. While traditional ...

Skewness refers to the degree of asymmetry of a distribution, typically of investment returns. A distribution can be positively skewed (long tail to the right) or negatively skewed (long tail to the ...

Across most markets, out-of-the-money (OTM) put options tend to be more expensive than OTM call options. This is most obviously true in the equity market, where investors fear downside risks more than ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...