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. Sharpe ratio

	Alpha	Sharpe 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.	widely used measure of risk-adjusted return that is used to evaluate the performance of an investment portfolio or financial instrument. It compares the return of an investment to its volatility, which is measured by the standard deviation of returns.
numerator	excess return (above the risk-free rate)	excess return (above the risk-free rate)
denominator		standard deviation of return
formula		https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharperatio.asp#:~:text=The%20Sharpe%20ratio%20is%20calculated,of%20the%20portfolio's%20excess%20return.
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