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  • Jan 09, 2018, 19:32 IST

Assessing risks in investments: What is standard deviation?

Jan 09, 2018, 19:32 IST

Standard deviation helps in understanding historical volatility of investment and is used to measure relative risk of investments. Volatile stocks have higher standard deviation whereas stable blue-chips have low standard deviation.