Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Portfolio variance is a measure of the dispersion of returns of a portfolio.

The concept of Adaptive Asset Allocation (AAA) was presented in a whitepaper by Butler, Philbrick and Gordillo this summer: Adaptive Asset Allocation. One of the core principles of AAA is that ...

Portfolio construction is the art (and science) of allocating weights to a collection of assets to achieve a given objective – typically, a target volatility or risk-adjusted return. The Markowitz ...

A stock's historical variance measures the difference between the stock's returns for different periods and its average return. A stock with a lower variance typically generates returns that are ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an ...