ActivePremium: Active Premium or Active Return

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

The return on an investment's annualized return minus the benchmark's annualized return.

Usage

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ActiveReturn(Ra, Rb, scale = NA, ...)

Arguments

Ra

return vector of the portfolio

Rb

return vector of the benchmark asset

scale

number of periods in a year (daily scale = 252, monthly scale = 12, quarterly scale = 4)

...

any other passthru parameters to Return.annualized (e.g., geometric=FALSE)

Details

Active Premium = Investment's annualized return - Benchmark's annualized return

Also commonly referred to as 'active return'.

Author(s)

Peter Carl

References

Sharpe, W.F. The Sharpe Ratio,Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 1994, 49-58.

See Also

InformationRatio TrackingError Return.annualized

Examples

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