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ActivePremium

Active Premium or Active Return


Description

The return on an investment's annualized return minus the benchmark's annualized return.

Usage

ActiveReturn(Ra, Rb, scale = NA, ...)

Arguments

Ra

return vector of the portfolio

Rb

return vector of the benchmark asset

scale

number of periods in a year (daily scale = 252, monthly scale = 12, quarterly scale = 4)

...

any other passthru parameters to Return.annualized (e.g., geometric=FALSE)

Details

Active Premium = Investment's annualized return - Benchmark's annualized return

Also commonly referred to as 'active return'.

Author(s)

Peter Carl

References

Sharpe, W.F. The Sharpe Ratio,Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 1994, 49-58.

See Also

Examples

data(managers)
    ActivePremium(managers[, "HAM1", drop=FALSE], managers[, "SP500 TR", drop=FALSE])
    ActivePremium(managers[,1,drop=FALSE], managers[,8,drop=FALSE])
    ActivePremium(managers[,1:6], managers[,8,drop=FALSE])
    ActivePremium(managers[,1:6], managers[,8:7,drop=FALSE])

PerformanceAnalytics

Econometric Tools for Performance and Risk Analysis

v2.0.4
GPL-2 | GPL-3
Authors
Brian G. Peterson [cre, aut, cph], Peter Carl [aut, cph], Kris Boudt [ctb, cph], Ross Bennett [ctb], Joshua Ulrich [ctb], Eric Zivot [ctb], Dries Cornilly [ctb], Eric Hung [ctb], Matthieu Lestel [ctb], Kyle Balkissoon [ctb], Diethelm Wuertz [ctb], Anthony Alexander Christidis [ctb], R. Douglas Martin [ctb], Zeheng 'Zenith' Zhou [ctb], Justin M. Shea [ctb]
Initial release
2020-02-05

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