Episode 059: Dr. William F. Sharpe, host Jon Luskin
Bogleheads On Investing Podcast
The Importance of Volatility in Investment Portfolios
The idea that only the beta of a security would have an impact on its expected returns was a pretty far out assumption. Now, there are so many securities, so many markets for that matter and so many people who own securities,. If nowhere else in their 401k or 3b's, I think it's to me at least a more comfortable assumption. This question comes from a user named 95 seated from the Bill Bitt's forums: Should investors consider volatility to be the primary measure of risk like constructing financial portfolios? He says if they do what Boglehead's might by and large, he would assume do.
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