Sharpe

American  

[shahrp] / ʃɑrp /

noun

1. William Forsyth born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1990.

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Example Sentences

Conservative peer Lord Sharpe, the shadow business and trade minister, had tabled an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill during its latest stage of parliamentary ping pong in the House of Lords.

From BBC

Lord Sharpe insisted calling for a review was "not obstruction" but "the bare minimum that a competent administration should undertake".

From BBC

The Sharpe ratios of 196 BTD strategies since 1965 have an average of -0.04% compared to just buying and holding, which equates to about a 16% degradation to just owning stocks passively, and more than 60% of BTD events underperformed by this metric.

From Barron's

It’s gotten only worse in modern history, with the Sharpe ratio of BTD since October 1989 coming in at -0.27%, a degradation of nearly half compared to just buying and holding equities.

From Barron's

But as Cao writes, even comparing risk-adjusted returns to these two approaches shows that BTD comes up short as measured by the Sharpe ratio, which gauges how much excess return investors get for the risk they assume.

From Barron's