MartinRatio: Martin ratio of the return distribution

In PerformanceAnalytics: Econometric Tools for Performance and Risk Analysis

Description

To calculate Martin ratio we divide the difference of the portfolio return and the risk free rate by the Ulcer index

Usage

MartinRatio(R, Rf = 0, ...)

Arguments

R	an xts, vector, matrix, data frame, timeSeries or zoo object of asset returns
Rf	risk free rate, in same period as your returns
...	any other passthru parameters

Details

Martin ratio = (rp - rf) / Ulcer index

where r_P is the annualized portfolio return, r_F is the risk free rate, n is the number of observations of the entire series, D'_i is the drawdown since previous peak in period i

Author(s)

Matthieu Lestel

References

Carl Bacon, Practical portfolio performance measurement and attribution, second edition 2008 p.91

Examples

data(portfolio_bacon)
print(MartinRatio(portfolio_bacon[,1])) #expected 1.70

data(managers)
print(MartinRatio(managers['1996']))
print(MartinRatio(managers['1996',1])) 

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