4 Reasons Boring Stocks Are Best

Last year the stock market went up some 30 percent, the best year for stocks in over a decade. IBM, Hewlett Packard, GE and even Microsoft all now seem like your grandfather's stocks. According to research by Nardin Baker at the management firm Guggenheim Partners, from 1990 through 2012 a portfolio consisting of the 10 percent of stocks with the lowest historical volatility did 19 percentage points better per year than the 10 percent of stocks with the greatest volatility. He says low volatility issues typically rise more than high volatility stocks when the news is good and they fall less when the news is bad.

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