As Halloween approaches, even the stock market has got in on the act. The Straits Times Index (STI), a benchmark index in Singapore, spooked investors by dipping below 3000 for the first time since January 2017. Eventually closing at 2972.02 on 26 October 2018 (Friday), the STI has lost nearly 13.4% since the start of 2018. In fact, since the beginning of October, it has fallen close to 8.7%. This drop, and heightened volatility, has caused many investors to take a tepid approach to investing in the stock markets. This brings us to our topic for this week – Low Beta. Beta Beta is a measure of the volatility of the stock compared to the rest of the market. A stock with a beta of 1 indicates that its price moves in tandem with the benchmark. A stock with a beta of more than 1 indicates tha