Last year the stock market went up some 30 percent, the best year for stocks in over a decade. IBM, Hewlett Packard, GE and even Microsoft all now seem like your grandfather’s stocks. According to research by Nardin Baker at the management firm Guggenheim Partners, from 1990 through 2012 a portfolio consisting of the 10 percent of stocks with the lowest historical volatility did 19 percentage points better per year than the 10 percent of stocks with the greatest volatility.