Kristina Zucchi is an investment analyst and financial writer with 15+ years of experience managing portfolios and conducting equity research. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois ...

In the investment world, it’s common to discuss average rates of return. It’s not sufficient, however, to simply add up historical returns and divide by how many there are. The proper way to calculate ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond ...