Measuring portfolio performance using a modified measure of risk

Chris Adcock ()

Journal of Asset Management, 2007, vol. 7, issue 6, No 3, 388-403

Abstract: Abstract This paper reports the results of an investigation into the properties of a theoretical modification of beta proposed by Leland (1999) and based on earlier work of Rubinstein (1976). It is shown that when returns are elliptically symmetric, beta is the appropriate measure of risk and that there are other situations in which the modified beta will be similar to the traditional measure based on the capital asset pricing model. For the case where returns have a normal distribution, it is shown that the criterion either does not exist or reduces exactly to the conventional beta. It is therefore conjectured that the modified measure will only be useful for portfolios that have nonstandard return distributions which incorporate skewness. For such situations, it is shown how to estimate the measure using regression and how to compare the resulting statistic with a traditional estimated beta using Hotelling's test. An empirical study based on stocks from the FTSE350 does not find evidence to support the use of the new measure even in the presence of skewness.

Keywords: beta; Hotelling's test; lognormal distribution; power utility function; Stein's lemma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jam.2250054

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