Since the Fund's launch in 1989, investors have doubled their money every 10 years, no matter when they bought the fund... The fund has outperformed global equities with 1/3 less risk [based on annualized
standard deviation of monthly returns for Institutional shares from 2/28/89 to 12/31/13, compared to the FTSE World Index].
Volatility represented by annualized
standard deviation of monthly returns for Institutional shares, all other share classes will vary, from first month - end after inception (2/28/89).
Not exact matches
Standard deviation is a measure
of return volatility computed using
monthly returns for the last three years.
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.
The following chart shows rolling volatility (measured as a
standard deviation of two years
of monthly returns) and accompanying statistics
for the portfolio:
She defines idiosyncratic volatility as the
standard deviation of daily residuals from
monthly regressions
of returns (in excess
of the risk - free rate)
for each stock versus Fama - French model factors.
The point estimates suggest that the transitory components in stock prices have a
standard deviation of between 15 and 25 percent and account
for more than half
of the variance in
monthly returns.
For example, an investor can compare two portfolios with the same average
monthly return of 5.0 %, but with different
standard deviations.
The Sharpe ratio is calculated
for a time series by dividing the mean period
return (daily,
monthly, yearly), in excess
of the risk free rate, by the
standard deviation of such
returns.
The 14.0 %
monthly standard deviation of returns for the MAGNET Simple screen is the highest figure among all AAII stocks screens, tied with the Murphy Technology screen.