Comparison of Risk vs. Return Metrics

What are Risk vs. Return Metrics?

Risk vs. Return Metrics are analytical tools used in finance to assess the relationship between the level of risk taken by an investment and the potential return generated from that investment.

Alpha vs. Information ratio

	Alpha	Information ratio
description	measure of a portfolio’s performance that is relative to a benchmark index. It is used to evaluate the performance of an investment manager, and it represents the return on an investment portfolio over the return that a benchmark index has achieved.	performance metric in investing that evaluates the excess return of a portfolio or investment relative to its benchmark, adjusted for the amount of risk taken to achieve that return.
numerator	excess return (above the risk-free rate)	average excess return (above the risk-free rate)
denominator		standard deviation of excess return
formula
SPY range