http://www.netvouz.com/infor626/tag/affect?feed=rss infor626's bookmarks tagged "affect" on Netvouz http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.37/how-do-changes-in-common-stock-price-volatility-affect-portfolio-diversification.html How do changes in common stock price volatility affect portfolio diversification? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Company level price risk has risen significantly in recent years, and price movement correlations between individual stocks have declined. This means investors must hold significantly more stocks to achieve diversification. Furthermore, volatility tends to jump well above average at the bottom of market cycles. Investors should understand these peaks in volatility and not just focus on the average volatility across market cycles. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.38/how-does-the-size-of-the-common-stock-risk-premium-affect-portfolio-diversification.html How does the size of the common stock risk premium affect portfolio diversification? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Diversification depends upon the expected equity premium and the correlation of price movements between individual stocks in the market. Depending on the size of the equity risk premium, non diversified individual investors could unwittingly give up their entire expected equity premium. This is an extraordinarily unproductive risk to take. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT