The risk-adjusted performance measurements make adjustments to returns in order to take account of the differences in risk levels between the managed portfolio and the benchmark portfolio. The most popular risk- adjusted performance measurements are the Sharpe measurement, Treynor measurement or reward to volatility ratio and Jensen’s alpha or Ex-post alpha.
Sharpe measurement
Sharpe measurement it is calculation the risk-free rate of return from the rate of return, the results are calculated by dividing the return of the investment by the standard deviation of the return on investment. The Sharpe ratio tells investors that the return on investment is due to intelligent investment decisions or due to high risk. This assessment is very useful,
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If only a single fund is used, it ignores the relevance of the fund to other investments in the portfolio, so it may be in any meaningful way that it does not meet the fund's desirability as an investment. If the fund of the Sharpe ratio is higher that the investor’s total investment portfolio, we can still conclude that investors should be interested in the fund. If lower we cannot draw any conclusions without knowing the relevance. It is also may be inappropriate when return is consider higher non-normal (Aragon & Ferson, 2006). For example, if the performance evaluation is to accurately grasp the utility function of investors, then consider the distribution of more time is very important (Cogneau & Hübner, 2009). If the return distribution is highly biased such as when the option is traded, the Sharp ratio may be …show more content…
However, both have the different to the definition of risk. Sharpe ratio use the standard deviation to defined the risk of volatility however treynor ratio is used Beta as a measure of market systemic risk (nobeltrading, 2010). Treynor ratio is useful for determining how it is useful to help diversify portfolio. Treynor measurement or reward to volatility ratio is a factor of fund performance adjustment based on the systemic risk of the fund's income, reflecting the excess returns from the fund's unit system risk. It is used to calculate the investment performance per unit risk (Wathen, 2015). The higher the index value, the higher the excess returns received by the unit system risk. Is the return indicator of each unit market risk, more than possible in the risk-free investment to obtain the return indicators. It is used to measure the return for risk
Throughout the risk assessment process, ideas for action were identified and documented. The documentation of these ideas led to the development of potential action item worksheets which were then selected, prioritized, and refined. Detailed risk assessment information for each hazard is included and located through this document.
Robert Arnott describes risk and return as “having two sides of the same coin” meaning risk is inseparable from return. Arnott points out the most important risks that are faced by managers of company pension plans: underperforming other corporate pension funds (their peers), losing money (mostly associated with portfolio standard deviation or volatility), and underperforming the values of pension obligations and therefore losing actuarial ground. He defines each of these risks as well as giving a few examples on each one. He quickly jumps into how many tend to focus on standard deviation as the only a single metric calculation, rather than recognizing there are other ways to do so. The author discourages the focus on just one risk, because all are intertwined together and rely on one another.
In order to make the decision, this report measures the following qualitative and quantitative areas:
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We began by selecting an appropriate risk-free rate and a market risk premium. The risk-free rate we selected is 3.48%. In selecting the risk-free rate, we used the geometric average return of short-term treasury bills from 1926 to 1987 because this average accounts for time as opposed to the arithmetic average. We used the range from 1926 to 1987, because the returns in the shorter time period ranges were much more volatile and did not predict the upcoming years as well. We selected our market risk premium using the geometric average return from 1926 to 1987 as well. After analyzing the spread between the S&P 500 composite returns and returns on short-term treasury bills, we chose 6.42% as our market risk premium.
Dimensional's value strategies are based on the Fama/French research in multifactor portfolios designed to capture the return premiums associated with high book-to-market (BtM) ratios.
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Over the previous five years, the return of the ProIndex fund have outperformed the S&P 500 index, as the 5-year-return is nearly 3 times than the benchmark and the annualised return is nearly 2 times than the benchmark. It means ProIndex fund has a significant increase in value within that period. However, the ProIndex Fund has a higher standard deviation which means it is more risk than the S&P 500 index. Especially for the annualised standard deviation, it is approximately 10% higher than the benchmark. The correlation coefficient between the ProIndex and benchmark is about 0.65 which means both two variables are positive changing consistently, but there are still some other factors which have impacts on the relationship between two variables as the correlation is less than 1. Furthermore, the higher beta, 1.0132, which is more than 1 and it may be one of the reasons for high risk as well since it is more sensitive to the market change. It means that the ProIndex fund would increase by 1.0132% if the market increased by 1%.
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is an ex ante concept, which is built on the portfolio theory established by Markowitz (Bhatnagar and Ramlogan 2012). It enhances the understanding of elements of asset prices, specifically the linear relationship between risk and expected return (Perold 2004). The direct correlation between risk and return is well defined by the security market line (SML), where market risk of an asset is associated with the return and risk of the market along with the risk free rate to estimate expected return on an asset (Watson and Head 1998 cited in Laubscher 2002).
Asset allocation decisions made by an investor are considered more important than other decisions such as market timing or security selection. In the research provided by Hensel (1991), performance attribution is one of the main components when choosing the right assets in a portfolio. The impact of any investment decision can be measured by comparing its outcome with the outcome of some alternative decision. Furthermore, according to Hensel (1991), every investor has to incorporate the minimum-risk portfolio, which is a combination of securities or asset classes that reduces the uncertainty of future portfolio returns to a minimum.
Because of their close relationship, it is difficult to distinguish the effects of Systematic and Total risk. The inclusion of Unsystematic risk appears to give little explanation to the risk-return relationship. Many investors view Unsystematic risk as irrelevant within the greater context of an investment strategy. The relevancy here is equated with persistent impact of risk, in spite of the best possible risk-minimizing strategies.
Commencing since the mid-1990s a measure of risk recognized as value-at-risk (VaR) has appeared as the prevalent risk measure for financiers in financial securities, banks and investment companies and the controlling powers that standardize these institutions. VaR is also an important part of both the Basel I and Basel II suggestions upon banking rules published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) also emphasized the significance of VaR measures for financial institutions to quantity the risk.
Using the Modern Portfolio Theory, overtime risk assets will provide a higher expected rate of return, as compensation to the investors for accepting a high risk. The high risk will eventually lower collecting asset classes to the portfolio, thus reducing the volatile risk, and increasing the expected rates of return. Furthermore the purpose of this theory is to develop the most optimal investments portfolio which would yield the highest rate of return while ascertaining the risk for the individual or corporate investor.