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Chapter 15Performance Measurement
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Chapter 15Outline
Questions to be answered:
• What major requirements do clients expect from their portfolio managers?
• What can a portfolio manager do to attain superior performance?
• What is the peer group comparison method of evaluating an investor’s performance?
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• What is the Treynor portfolio performance measure?
• What is the Sharpe portfolio performance measure?
• What is the critical difference between the Treynor and Sharpe portfolio performance measures?
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• What is the Jensen portfolio performance measure, and how does it relate to the Treynor measure?
• What is the information ratio and how is it related to the other performance measures?
• When evaluating a sample of portfolios, how do you determine how well diversified they are?
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• What is the bias found regarding the composite performance measures?
• What is the Fama portfolio performance measure and what information does it provide beyond other measures?
• What is attribution analysis and how can it be used to distinguish between a portfolio manager’s market timing and security selection skills?
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• What is the Roll “benchmark error” problem, and what are the two factors that are affected when computing portfolio performance measures?
• What is the impact of global investing on the benchmark error problem?
• What are customized benchmarks?
• What are the important characteristics that any benchmark should possess?
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Chapter 15Outline
• What are the time-weighted and dollar-weighted returns and which should be reported under AIMR’s Performance Presentation Standards?
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How Should Investors Measure Risk?
• Standard Deviation
– Investors with limited holdings
• Beta
– Investors with a wide array of holding
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How Should Investors Select Funds?
Performance Indexes
Provide a method of comparing
funds with different
risk-return characteristics
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What is Required of a Portfolio Manager?
1.The ability to derive above-average returns for a given risk class
Superior risk-adjusted returns can be derived from either – superior timing or– superior security selection
2. The ability to diversify the portfolio completely to eliminate unsystematic risk
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Composite Portfolio Performance Measures
• Portfolio evaluation before 1960– rate of return within risk classes
• Peer group comparisons– no explicit adjustment for risk– difficult to form comparable peer group
• Treynor portfolio performance measure– market risk– individual security risk– introduced characteristic line
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Performance Indexes
• Sharpe’s Performance Index (PIS)
• Treynor’s Performance Index (PIT)
• Jensen’s Performance Index (PIJ)
• Performance Indexes With APT(PIA)
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Treynor’s Performance Index
• Based on SML
• Uses Beta to measure Risk
• The Higher the Index– The better the performance
• Investors Hold Many Assets
• For Investors Only Interested in Whether They Beat the Market
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Treynor Portfolio Performance Measure
• Treynor recognized two components of risk– Risk from general market fluctuations
– Risk from unique fluctuations in the securities in the portfolio
• His measure of risk-adjusted performance focuses on the portfolio’s undiversifiable risk: market or systematic risk
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Treynor Portfolio Performance Measure
• The numerator is the risk premium• The denominator is a measure of risk• The expression is the risk premium return per unit of
risk• Risk averse investors prefer to maximize this value• This assumes a completely diversified portfolio
leaving systematic risk as the relevant risk
i
i RFRRT
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Treynor Portfolio Performance Measure
• Comparing a portfolio’s T value to a similar measure for the market portfolio indicates whether the portfolio would plot above the SML
• Calculate the T value for the aggregate market as follows:
m
m
m
RFRRT
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Treynor Portfolio Performance Measure
• Comparison to see whether actual return of portfolio G was above or below expectations can be made using:
RFRRRFRRE miG
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Sharpe’s Performance Index
• Based on the Slope of the CML
• Uses Standard Deviation to Measure Risk
• The Higher the Index
– The better the performance
• Investors Only Hold the Mutual Fund
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Sharpe Portfolio Performance Measure
i
i
i
RFRRS
• Risk premium earned per unit of risk
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Treynor versus Sharpe Measure
• Sharpe uses standard deviation of returns as the measure of risk
• Treynor measure uses beta (systematic risk)
• Sharpe therefore evaluates the portfolio manager on the basis of both rate of return performance and diversification
• The methods agree on rankings of completely diversified portfolios
• Produce relative not absolute rankings of performance
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Jensen’s Performance Index
• Based on CAPM• Uses Beta to Measure Risk• “Alpha” = average return less expected return
given by CAPM / SML• Determines How Much One Fund
Outperforms or Underperforms Another Fund• Determines the Significance of Results• Investors Hold Many Assets
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Jensen Portfolio Performance Measure
• Also based on CAPM
• Expected return on any security or portfolio is
RFRRERFRRE mjj
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Jensen Portfolio Performance Measure
• Also based on CAPM• Expected return on any security or portfolio is
Where: E(Rj) = the expected return on securityRFR = the one-period risk-free interest rate
j= the systematic risk for security or portfolio j
E(Rm) = the expected return on the market portfolio of risky assets
RFRRERFRRE mjj
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Performance Indexes With APT
• One or More Factors Determine Risk
• Jensen’s Performance Measure
• Examine the Difference Between – Actual and expected average rate of return
• Determines the Significance of Results
• For Investors Who Want to Compare Their Performance With Other Fund Managers
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Summary
• Standard Deviation Appropriate– Sharpe’s index
• Beta Appropriate– Treynor’s index– Jensen’s index
• One or More Factors Determine Risk– APT
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The Information Ratio Performance Measure
• Appraisal ratio
• measures average return in excess of benchmark portfolio divided by the standard deviation of this excess return
ER
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ER
bj
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ERRRIR
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Application of Portfolio Performance Measures
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ititititit BP
BPDistCapDivEPR
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Empirical Evidence For MFs • MFs performance Fall Behind the Market• MFs can not Outperform
– Buy-the-market and-hold policy
• International MFs Tend to do Better– Outperform the S&P 500
– Choice of market portfolio critical
• Bond Funds Underperform the Indexes– Relationship
• underperformance and the expense ratio
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Pension Funds Outperformed By The S&P 500
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Performance Attribution
Assessing the performance of
the activities that make up
portfolio management
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Levels Of Decisions Causing Excess Returns
• Top-Down Approach– Asset allocation– Sector Allocation– Industry allocation– Security selection
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Flow Chart Top -Down Money Management
Process
A sse t A lloca tion s
S ec to r A lloca tion s
In d u s try A lloca tion
S ecu rity S e llec tion s A m W ater W orks
W ater
U tilit ies
S tocks B on d s C ash
Portfolio
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Components of Investment Performance
• Fama suggested overall performance, which is its return in excess of the risk-free ratePortfolio Risk + Selectivity
• Further, if there is a difference between the risk level specified by the investor and the actual risk level adopted by the portfolio manager, this can be further refinedInvestor’s Risk + Manager’s Risk + Selectivity
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Components of Investment Performance
• The selectivity measure is used to assess the manager’s investment prowess
• The relationship between expected return and risk for the portfolio is:
mm
m
RR
RFRRERFRRE
mj R̂,R̂Covˆ
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Components of Investment Performance
• The market line then becomes a benchmark for the manager’s performance
xm
mx R
RFRRRFRR
axa RR y Selectivit
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Components of Investment Performance
• The selectivity component can be broken into two parts– gross selectivity is made up of net selectivity
plus diversification
axaxaxa RRRRR ySelectivitNet
ationDiversific y Selectivit
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Components of Investment Performance
• Assuming the investor has a target level of risk for the portfolio equal to T, the portion of overall performance due to risk can be assessed as follows:
RFRRRRRFRR TxTxaxax
Risk sInvestor' Risk sManager' Risk
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Measuring Market Timing Skills
• Tactical asset allocation (TAA)
• Attribution analysis is inappropriate– indexes make selection effect not relevant– multiple changes to asset class weightings
during an investment period
• Regression-based measurement
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Can Fund Managers Time The Market?
• Newsletters Failed
• Performance Attributed To– Problems with performance indexes
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Potential Bias of One-Parameter Measures
• positive relationship between the composite performance measures and the risk involved
• alpha can be biased downward for those portfolios designed to limit downside risk
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Caution About Performance Indexes
• Problems– Historical performance is used to infer future performance– Difficult to measure the risk of actively traded accounts– Beta is not stable
• Depends on the choice of market index– Overall performance indexes cannot identify
• What activities of the portfolio manager resulted in the performance
• Performance attribution done as a separate step
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What is the “Market Portfolio”?
• Market portfolio difficult to approximate
• Benchmark error– can effect slope of SML– can effect calculation of Beta– greater concern with global investing– problem is one of measurement
• Sharpe measure not as dependent on market portfolio
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Benchmark Portfolios
• Performance evaluation standard
• Usually a passive index or portfolio
• May need benchmark for entire portfolio and separate benchmarks for segments to evaluate individual managers
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Characteristics of Benchmarks
• Unambiguous
• Investable
• Measurable
• Appropriate
• Reflective of current investment opinions
• Specified in advance
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Building a Benchmark
• Specialize as appropriate
• Provide value weightings
• Provide constraints to portfolio manager
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Evaluation of Bond Portfolio Performance
• How did performance compare among portfolio managers relative to the overall bond market or specific benchmarks?
• What factors explain or contribute to superior or inferior bond-portfolio performance?
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A Bond Market Line
• Need a measure of risk such as beta coefficient for equities
• Difficult to achieve due to bond maturity and coupon effect on volatility of prices
• Composite risk measure is the bond’s duration
• Duration replaces beta as risk measure in a bond market line
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Bond Market Line Evaluation• Policy effect
– Difference in expected return due to portfolio duration target
• Interest rate anticipation effect– Differentiated returns from changing duration of
the portfolio
• Analysis effect– Acquiring temporarily mispriced bonds
• Trading effect– Short-run changes
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Decomposing Portfolio ReturnsInto maturity, sector, and quality effects
• Total return during a period is the income effect and a price change effect
• The yield-to-maturity (income) effect is the return an investor would receive if nothing had happened to the yield curve during the period
• Interest rate effect measures changes in the term structure of interest rates during the period
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Decomposing Portfolio Returns• The sector/quality effect measures expected
impact on returns because of changing yield spreads between bonds in different sectors and ratings
• The residual effect is what is left after accounting for the first three factors
• A large positive residual would indicate superior selection capabilities
• Time-series plot demonstrates strengths and weaknesses of portfolio manager
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Consistency of Performance
• For bond managers, no relationships between performance in two periods, nor between past and future performance among the best and worst performers
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Computing Portfolio Returns
• To evaluate portfolio performance, we have to measure it
• From Chapter 5 we learned how to calculate a holding period yield, which equals the change in portfolio value plus income divided by beginning portfolio value:
1
Value Beginning
Value EndingHPY
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Computing Portfolio Returns
• Dollar-weighted rate of return (DWRR)– Internal rate of return on the portfolio’s cash flows
• Time-weighted rate of return (TWRR)– Geometric average return
• TWRR is better– Considers actual period by period portfolio returns– No size bias - inflows and outflows could affect
results
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Performance Presentation Standards
• AIMR PPS have the following goals:– achieve greater uniformity and comparability among
performance presentation– improve the service offered to investment
management clients– enhance the professionalism of the industry– bolster the notion of self-regulation
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Performance Presentation Standards• Total return must be used
• Time-weighted rates of return must be used
• Portfolios valued quarterly and periodic returns geometrically linked
• Composite return performance (if presented) must contain all actual fee-paying accounts
• Performance calculated after trading expenses
• Taxes must be recognized when incurred
• Annual returns for all years must be presented
• Disclosure requirements