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Defined in a famous paper by William Sharpe in 1964 — he of the Sharpe ratio — beta is defined as “a portfolio risk that cannot be diversified away by adding more securities to it.” Since the whole market has all the securities in it, you can't add to that, the whole market has a beta of 1. Therefore to track Beta is to track the whole market's performance. | Defined in a famous paper by William Sharpe in 1964 — he of the Sharpe ratio — beta is defined as “a portfolio risk that cannot be diversified away by adding more securities to it.” Since the whole market has all the securities in it, you can't add to that, the whole market has a beta of 1. Therefore to track Beta is to track the whole market's performance. | ||
Therefore watch out for — well, to put not to fine a point on it — ''bullshit'' products claiming to yield returns like “[[intelligent beta]]”; “[[smart beta]]” or “[[enhanced beta]]”. | Therefore watch out for — well, to put not to fine a point on it — ''bullshit'' products claiming to yield returns like “[[intelligent beta]]”; “[[smart beta]]” or “[[enhanced beta]]”. Nonsense on stilts. | ||
Good article [https://portfoliosolutions.com/latest-learnings/blog/no-such-thing-better-beta here]. | Good article [https://portfoliosolutions.com/latest-learnings/blog/no-such-thing-better-beta here]. | ||
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