Posts Tagged ‘balanced fund advantages’

Volatility measures behavioural risk

By Dan Hallett on October 18th, 2010

In his latest Globe & Mail column, Tom Bradley discussed risk and volatility.  Modern finance theory uses volatility, or more formally standard deviation, as its measure of risk largely because it is an easy statistic to use in quantitative...

The ironic comfort of balanced funds

By Dan Hallett on August 30th, 2010

In this weekend’s Report on Business, Rob Carrick nicely captured my mixed feelings about balanced funds.  As I noted in a recent Wealth Steward post, it’s critical to keep an eye on fees when choosing your bond exposure.  Yet, the...

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