Why are stocks so risky?

Kopcke, Richard W., and Dan Muldoon. “Why are stocks so risky?”. Issue in Brief 9-23, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, November 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104282.
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Abstract

The brief's key findings are: (1) Stocks have diverged from historic averages for periods of 10 to 20 years. (2) This divergence reflects fluctuations in: 1) corporate earnings; and 2) investors' assessments of those earnings. (3) Corporate earnings vary, but tend to stabilize and return to long-term economic trends within a few years. (4) In contrast, investors' valuations have been more volatile, taking decades to fully stabilize.

Title
Why are stocks so risky?
Author
Kopcke, Richard W.
Muldoon, Dan
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
November 2009
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
9-23
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104282
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Subject
Financing Retirement

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