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Learn what active risk is and how to calculate it. Understand the methods to evaluate active risk in portfolios and explore examples of funds outperforming benchmarks.

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In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...