E. Napoletano is a former registered financial advisor and award-winning author and journalist. Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and ...

Required rate of return (RRR) gives investors a benchmark to determine the minimum acceptable return on an investment considering the risk involved. By calculating RRR, investors can assess whether an ...

The risk-free rate is the rate of return offered by an investment that carries zero risk. Every investment asset carries some level of risk, however small, so the risk-free rate is something of a ...