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FamaBeta

Fama beta of the return distribution


Description

Fama beta is a beta used to calculate the loss of diversification. It is made so that the systematic risk is equivalent to the total portfolio risk.

Usage

FamaBeta(Ra, Rb, ...)

Arguments

Ra

an xts, vector, matrix, data frame, timeSeries or zoo object of asset returns

Rb

return vector of the benchmark asset

...

any other passthru parameters

Details

Fama beta = portfolio standard deviation / benchmark standard deviation

where σ_P is the portfolio standard deviation and σ_M is the market risk

Author(s)

Matthieu Lestel

References

Carl Bacon, Practical portfolio performance measurement and attribution, second edition 2008 p.78

Examples

data(portfolio_bacon)
print(FamaBeta(portfolio_bacon[,1], portfolio_bacon[,2])) #expected 1.03

data(managers)
print(FamaBeta(managers['1996',1], managers['1996',8]))
print(FamaBeta(managers['1996',1:5], managers['1996',8]))

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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