Background: In making investment decisions, asset risk and return are two crucial criteria on which investors base … their decision. Objectives: This paper provides risk and return analysis and compares different traditional and alternative … estate, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, renewable energy sources, gold, and oil. Methods/Approach: The risk measures of …

-established determinants of returns from the real world also affect asset prices in this market, despite the absence of systematic risk. The …

wrong perception of the risk-reward potential of an investment. Additionally, the paper analyzes which representation format … is most likely to encourage investment risk taking that is motivated by a biased risk-reward perception. The results … investment than individuals using bar charts. However, the strongest reduction of biased risk taking is achieved with a bar chart …

between funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by …

replacement rate at retirement. We identify that the key factor driving our results is the uncertainty of the equity risk premium …

replacement rate at retirement. We identify that the key factor driving our results is the uncertainty of the equity risk premium …

funded and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by different …

and unfunded systems when there are sources of uninsurable risk that are allocated in different ways by different types of …

Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that … assets. Because households are subject to more background risk than previously considered, the estimated model implies a … substantially lower coefficient of risk aversion. We also find renewed support for rule-of-thumb investment strategies under the …