It’s easy to stick money in your retirement fund and forget about it. But that doesn’t mean you should! As important as consistent saving is understanding your rate of return on investment (ROI). If ...

Every thriving business relies on a robust return on investment (ROI) to help gauge whether its investments are yielding a profit. Although you as an individual investor possess shallower pockets than ...

One simple but powerful method investors can use to assess the risk and reward of a stock portfolio is using the Capital Asset Pricing Model, or CAPM, model for expected returns. The basics of CAPM ...

Rate of return represents the percentage net gain or loss of an investment's initial cost over a period of time. The rate of return calculates the percentage change from the beginning to the end of a ...

Return on equity, often abbreviated as ROE, is a financial metric used to judge the strength of a business by answering this key question: How much profit does it generate as a function of the cash it ...

Rate of return is the percentage that an investment has grown or decreased over a specific time frame. You want your investments to return a gain, normally in the form of interest or dividend ...

Do you feel lost trying to decide what to invest in? What if you had a tool to help you identify the best potential path forward? That’s how you can look at the internal rate of return (IRR): as a ...

Calculating stock growth rates can be challenging and seem intimidating, especially with all the numbers and terminology getting thrown around. Every investor has a preferred way of calculating that ...

Real returns indicate if investments keep up with inflation, maintaining purchasing power. To calculate real return, subtract inflation rate from nominal return after taxes. Positive real returns show ...

I may be off with the terminology but here is what I'm trying to do. I have downloaded all of my transactions for my retirement funds for the last few years. For each transaction, I have the number of ...

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