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Suppose an investor transfers $500 into a portfolio at the beginning of Year 1, and another $1,000 at the beginning of Year 2, and the portfolio has a total value of $1,500 at the end of the Year 2. The net gain over the two-year period is zero, so intuitively, we might expect that the return over the whole 2-year period to be 0% (which is ...
Fund Name Assets (millions of USD) 1 SPDR S&P 500 ETF $ 260,765.80 2 Vanguard 500 Idx Adm $ 256,872.60 3 Vanguard TSM Idx Adm $ 209,796.70 4 Fidelity 500 Index Fund $ 179,000.00 5 iShares:Core S&P 500 $ 159,711.30 6 Vanguard TSM Idx Inst+ $ 152,993.40 7 Vanguard Tot I S Inv $ 135,697.90 8 Vanguard TSM Idx Inv $ 133,038.00 9
An investor who did not reinvest would have received total distributions (cash payments) of $5.78 per share. The return over the five-year period for such an investor would be ($19.90 + $5.78) / $14.21 − 1 = 80.72%, and the arithmetic average rate of return would be 80.72%/5 = 16.14% per year.
Performance attribution, or investment performance attribution is a set of techniques that performance analysts use to explain why a portfolio's performance differed from the benchmark. This difference between the portfolio return and the benchmark return is known as the active return .
The OLS regression can be estimated on 1–5 years worth of daily, weekly or monthly stock returns. The choice depends on the trade off between accuracy of beta measurement (longer periodic measurement times and more years give more accurate results) and historic firm beta changes over time (for example, due to changing sales products or clients).
Example investment portfolio with a diverse asset allocation. Asset allocation is the implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in an investment portfolio according to the investor's risk tolerance, goals and investment time frame. [1]
But if you have a 10-year window before you might need to use your $10,000, then an MMF paying you 3% during that time grows your balance to about $13,400. An S&P 500 index fund paying 8% gets you ...
The happy outcome is that Max Value chooses Big-Is-Best, which has the higher NPV of 20,000 US dollars, over Small-Is-Beautiful, which only has a modest NPV of 2,500, whereas Max Return chooses Small-Is-Beautiful, for its superior 37.5 percent return, over the attractive (but not as attractive) return of 32 percent offered on Big-Is-Best.