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Instability Index of Earnings

An index that captures the deviation between actual income and trend income. The higher the index, the more unstable (less...

Industry Beta

The weighted average of betas of stocks or businesses in the same industry group. It is a proxy for systematic...

Exotic Beta

An independent return factor that comes about from sources other than the usual beta returns (which per se result from...

Beta Fund

A hedge fund that doesn't hedge, whether partially or fully. A beta fund maintains some exposure to the market without...

BAVAR Ratio

It stands for beta and volatility adjusted return; BAVAR ratio is a risk-return measure that is derived from the Sharpe...

False Alpha

An independent return factor that comes about from sources other than the usual beta returns (which per se result from...

Forward Rate Bias

The empirical tendency of higher interest rate currencies' return to outperform the return of lower rate currencies. This can be...

Constructed Beta

A value of beta (systematic risk measure) that is constructed artificially when market-generated betas are not available (or cannot be...

Alpha Transport

A method of transporting the active return (alpha) among asset classes by separating and transporting uncorrelated incremental returns from one...

Option Alpha

This second-order greek expresses the quality of gamma in terms of the time decay (rent). Therefore, it indicates the quality of the earnings from...