"Newbies"

Humor

Themes & Topics

Glossary

Lecture Notes

Trivia & Factoids

Themes & Topics
Risk & Return

Background Information

• Looking for Reality In Rates of Return (WashingtonPost, March 22, 1998)

• Historical Behavior of Asset Returns (Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University)

• Mean-Standard Deviation Analysis (Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University)

• Portfolio Theory, Diversification, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University)

• A New Approach To Assessing Risk & Return. (FORTUNE)

Historical Performance

• Equity: Total Return, Sales, Earnings Growth, Earnings Decline, Net Margin, & Return on Equity (BusinessWeek, 3/30/98)

News Stories

• Using Bonds As A Safety Net They provide haven for people spooked by market gyrations (SF Chronicle, September 14, 1998)

• Persuading Tech-Stock Junkies To Alter Portfolios Is Difficult (WSJ, 1/6/99)

• Gambling for big returns: Before putting your money in high-risk stock funds, do some basic homework (CNNfn, March 11, 1998)

• FIRM-WIDE RISK: The rise and rise of the risk manager (Euromoney, February 1998)

Bloopers & Blunders

• beta

• SML: Dial Stock Underperformed

• Volatility and Return

Finance By Example (Archives)

• Auction Prices and Risk Premium

• ROE, Buybacks, and Value

Resources On-Line

• BARRA

• Ibbotson Associates

• Morningstar

• P/E Calculator (Financial Times - registration required)

• Stock Search (Quicken)

• riskview