Active Portfolio Management

Free CFA Level II lesson in Portfolio Management. 13 min read, ~1,938 words.

IR = active return / tracking error measures active return per unit of active risk and is the primary metric for evaluating active managers. IR = IC x sqrt(BR) x TC: the fundamental law of active management, with three levers (forecast quality, independent decisions, constraint efficiency). The square root on...

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