Measuring risk in a portfolio

Three portfolios, two correct measures, and two opposite rankings. Volatility is one way of counting risk and it treats a good month and a bad one as the same event. This course teaches you to compute three figures and say what each one leaves out.

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Six things you will be able to do

10 units, 59 minutes. Every one of them ends with something you can do.

01 Compute volatility properlyWorked from a monthly series and annualised, with what it quietly counts as the same thing.
02 See what the number ignoresShuffle the same twelve months. The volatility holds and the path the investor lived does not.
03 Measure the deepest fallMaximum drawdown, and why it can rank portfolios in the opposite order to volatility.
04 Blend two sleeves correctlyCorrelation and covariance, and why the risk of a blend is not a weighted average of its parts.
05 Move one correlationHold everything else pinned and watch the portfolio figure respond on its own.
06 Say what each figure missesOne sentence per measure, naming the blind spot rather than quoting the number.

What changes after this course

You stop quoting a standard deviation as the risk and start naming its blind spot, one sentence per measure.

Annualised volatility, maximum drawdown and a two sleeve blend, all computed

One sentence per figure saying what it covers and what it does not

The reason a blend is not a weighted average, demonstrated rather than asserted

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