At about 15 %, the fund's volatility, measured by an annualized
standard deviation of monthly returns in the entire analysis period, was slightly lower than that of the overall stock market.
Not exact matches
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].
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.
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.
When comparing the performance
of two indexes, the tracking error is the
standard deviation of the differences
in their
monthly returns.