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excess return

The return on an asset or a portfolio in excess of the risk-free return. If short-term corporate debt provides a return of 4 ¹/₂ % while U.S. Treasury bills are yielding 3 ¹/₂ %, excess return on the corporate debt is 1%. Excess return is usually correlated with the riskiness of an investment.

Excess Return

A return that is larger than some benchmark, especially the risk-free return. A portfolio, for example, may have an excess return above the index on which it is based. This occurs when the portfolio manager makes certain investment decisions that pay off for the investor. It is important to note that receiving an excess return almost always requires one to take on more risk.

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IR of an equity fund is computed as an arithmetic average of fund's excess return divided by standard deviation of excess return (Goodwin, 1998).

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Once an insurer establishes the maximum amount of tracking error available from its guidelines and from the marketplace, it should determine the ultimate amount of tracking error it is willing to take, and, as importantly, the excess return it expects to generate by taking that risk.

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