TY - JOUR TI - Assessment of Financial Assets by the Ratio of «Risk-Yield», Taking into Consideration the Duration of Investments T2 - HSE Economic Journal IS - HSE Economic Journal KW - risk KW - return KW - Sharpe ratio KW - risk premium KW - stocks KW - bonds KW - capital asset pricing model (CAPM) KW - security market line (SML) KW - investments KW - securities AB - One of the fundamental concepts of financial theory is to find compromise between risk and return. In the traditional approach to ratio of risk and return - higher yield faces a higher risk. It does not take into consideration the timeframe of investments. Purpose of this article is to analyze the risk-profitability ratio of financial instruments depending on the investment period in developed and emerging markets. The analysis showed that the prolongation of the investment period reduces the risk indicators, and the yield remains almost constant. At long time periods shares indicate higher returns with lower risk. AU - Nikolay Berzon AU - Sergey Volodin UR - https://ej.hse.ru/en/2010-14-3/26558317.html PY - 2010 SP - 311-325 VL - 14