Annual standard deviation of return for the fund calculated over a three - year period.
Not exact matches
With an
annual standard deviation of 20, an 8 % average
return means that stocks will
return between -8 % and +28 %...
From 1970 to 2009, a Canadian stock portfolio (single asset class) earned an average
annual return of 9.70 % with a «
standard deviation»
of 16.57 % 3.
We measure risk using
standard deviation, which measures how close together or far apart the
annual returns of a portfolio are.
Standard deviation is a historical measure
of the variability
of returns relative to the average
annual return.
Take a set
of 5 - year
annual returns, and calculate the annualized
standard deviation of returns (using monthly
deviations and annualizing them is informative).
We focus on gross compound
annual growth rate (CAGR), gross maximum drawdown (MaxDD) and rough gross
annual Sharpe ratio (average
annual return divided by
standard deviation of annual returns) as key performance statistics for the Top 1, equally weighted (EW) Top 2 and EW Top 3 portfolios
of monthly winners.
He also considers average and median terminal wealth / bequest, tail risk,
annual volatility (
standard deviation of annual returns) and upside potential.
In finance,
standard deviation is applied to the
annual rate
of return of an investment to measure the investment's volatility.
The
annual return of the hedge fund has been about 2.3 times greater than the S&P 500, with the same downside
standard deviation.
Another way to look at the results
of the AAII screens is to calculate compound
annual returns divided by
standard deviation for each series
of results from 1998 to 2012.
From 1970 to 2009, a Canadian stock portfolio (single asset class) earned an average
annual return of 9.70 % with a «
standard deviation»
of 16.57 % 3.
The higher the number, the greater the volatility; for a stock fund that has an average
annual return of 12 % and a
standard deviation of 20 %, you can expect to earn between 32 % and -8 % in about two out
of every three years.
Now, when using a balanced portfolio with a 60/40 asset allocation, the historical
return for the same period was 9.30 % mean
return (8.76 % CAGR) with 9.35 %
standard deviation of annual returns.
The
standard deviation of the S&P 500's
annual return over the past 50 years is 17 %.
Also, note the observation that the long - term Treasury fund, with no credit risk but large term risk, has a higher
standard deviation of annual returns than does the high - yield corporate bond fund, which has significant credit risk but much less term risk.
The first is
standard deviation, a statistical measure
of how much
annual returns vary around their long - term average.
We consider as performance metrics: average
annual excess
return (relative to the yield on 1 - year U.S. Treasury notes at the beginning
of each year);
standard deviation of annual excess
returns;
annual Sharpe ratio; compound
annual growth rate (CAGR); and, maximum
annual drawdown (
annual MaxDD).
If a portfolio has an average expected
return of 9.7 % and a
standard deviation of 7.6 %, that means in 19 years out
of 20 its
annual return can be expected to range between — 6 % and 25 %.
And it would have lowered your volatility from a
standard deviation of 16.25 % to only 14.83 %, a 6.36 % better
annual return with 1.42 % less volatility.
And to quantify that volatility in a mutual fund ETF or portfolio
of investments, investors typically turn to
standard deviation, a measure that calculates how much an investment's
annual return fluctuates around its long - term average
annual return.
Without getting too complicated, the
standard deviation is basically a measure
of the variability in a process (in our case
annual stock
returns).
The results include a visualization
of the portfolio growth chart and rolling
returns, CAGR,
standard deviation, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio,
annual returns and inflation adjusted
returns.
Figure # 1 tells us there is a 68 % chance (the definition
of a
standard deviation) that the
annual return on investing in small company stocks could be anywhere between plus or minus 32.8 %.
This principle is based on the
standard deviation of the
annual return.