Does the choice of performance measure influence the evaluation of commodity investments?

Benjamin R. Auer

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2015, vol. 38, issue C, 142-150

Abstract: In practice, a wide variety of performance measures is available to evaluate commodity investments. In this article, we show that the most popular of these metrics, i.e., the Sharpe ratio and 12 alternative reward-to-risk ratios based on drawdowns, partial moments and the Value at Risk, yield almost identical rank orderings across futures-based commodity investments in energy, precious metals, industrial metals, agriculture, and livestock. Especially for identifying the best and worst investment opportunities from a set of given alternatives, the choice of performance measure does not crucially influence investment decisions. Interestingly, our results are robust in several dimensions, namely, the dataset, the time period, the return calculation method and the performance measure parametrisation.

Keywords: Energy investment; Performance measurement; Rank correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2014.10.003

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