The Associated Press
Demand for Wall Street Analysis Grows

By Steven D. Jones

The cumulative performance of Wall Street's recommended stocks over the past decade has been slightly below the performance of the S&P 500, said Randall Woolridge, professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business.

His research to be published in the Journal of Investing found that the few firms that were able to marginally outperform the index did so by avoiding risk and volatility. Says Woolridge: "Avoiding the big losers is the key to success."

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Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the eBusiness Research Center, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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