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What are Risk Adjusted Investment Returns?
Episode 14

What are Risk Adjusted Investment Returns?

Broken Pie Chart · Broken Pie Chart

December 2, 201819m 45s

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Show Notes

In this episode Derek Moore discusses the concept of Risk-Adjusted Returns, Standard Deviation of Returns, Sortino Ratio, Risk Free Interest Rates. Plus, how to compare two investment returns against one another on a risk adjusted basis and why many investors might be using the wrong investor benchmarks against their portfolios.

Key Takeaways:

  • • What are risk adjusted investment returns?
  • • What is the standard deviation of investment returns?
  • • What is the Risk-Free Interest or Discount Rate?
  • • Why do people use Treasury Bills or Treasury Bonds as the Risk-Free Rate?
  • • What is the Sharpe Ratio?
  • • How is the Sharpe Ratio calculated?
  • • How is the Sharpe Ratio different than the Sortino Ratio?
  • • How larger than expected upside investment returns can actually raise the standard deviation of portfolios
  • • The pitfalls of using past historical returns to try and evaluate expected returns
  • • Why do many investors always use the S&P 500 Index as the benchmark?
  • • What would be a more appropriate way to choose investment benchmark indexes for comparison?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Broken Pie Chart Book by Derek Moore https://amzn.to/2MibTSk

Sortino Ratio https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sortinoratio.asp

Sharpe Ratio https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharperatio.asp