Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation of return measures the average deviations of a return series from its mean, and is often used as a measure of risk. A large standard deviation implies that there have been large swings in the return series of the manager.

Standard deviation can be calculated in two ways:

 
 

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