Rebecca Baldridge, CFA, is an investment professional and financial writer with over 20 years' experience in the financial services industry. In addition to a decade in banking and brokerage in Moscow ...

Most investment professionals are familiar with the formula known as the Sharpe Ratio. The calculation is so omnipresent in financial circles that it even features as a sales objection on the ...

Individual investors typically look at their accounts in terms of profit/loss. For professional portfolio managers, the assumption is that they will make a profit over the long run, so they're ...

With the interest in hedge funds and other alternative investment mechanisms soaring, here is an attempt to provide an intuitive explanation for understanding and interpreting the Sharpe Ratio and the ...

Multifamily properties have been historically named as an asset that fulfills the desire for functional, clean and safe housing. Over the last decade, despite the price appreciation, the sector has ...

As a high-frequency trader, my job was to create algorithms that would trade billions of dollars in stocks at microsecond speeds, capitalizing on tiny mathematical edges that would capture just ...

The Sharpe ratio compares an investment's excess return over a benchmark to the standard deviation of returns. The higher the Sharpe ratio, the better the investment's historical risk-adjusted ...