As a well-informed investor, you naturally want to know the expected return of your portfolio—its anticipated performance and the overall profit or loss it's racking up. Expected return is just that: expected. It is not guaranteed, as it is based on historical returns and used to generate expectations, but it is not a prediction.
The expected return of a portfolio will depend on the expected returns of the individual securities within the portfolio on a weighted-average basis. A well-diversified portfolio will therefore need to take into account the expected returns of several assets.
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To calculate a portfolio's expected return, an investor needs to calculate the expected return of each of its holdings, as well as the overall weight of each holding.
The basic expected return formula involves multiplying each asset's weight in the portfolio by its expected return, then adding all those figures together.
In other words, a portfolio's expected return is the weighted average of its individual components' returns.
The expected return is usually based on historical data and is therefore not guaranteed.
The standard deviation or riskiness of a portfolio is not as straightforward of a calculation as its expected return.
How to Calculate Expected Return
To calculate the expected return of a portfolio, the investor needs to know the expected return of each of the securities in their portfolio as well as the overall weight of each security in the portfolio. That means the investor needs to add up the weighted averages of each security's anticipated rates of return (RoR).
An investor bases the estimates of the expected return of a security on the assumption that what has been proven true in the past will continue to be proven true in the future. The investor does not use a structural view of the market to calculate the expected return. Instead, they find the weight of each security in the portfolio by taking the value of each of the securities and dividing it by the total value of the security.
Once the expected return of each security is known and the weight of each security has been calculated, an investor simply multiplies the expected return of each security by the weight of the same security and adds up the product of each security.
Formula for Expected Return
Let's say your portfolio contains three securities. The equation for its expected return is as follows:
Ep = w1E1 + w2E2 + w3E3
where: wn refers to the portfolio weight of each asset and En its expected return.
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A portfolio comprises of two stock A and B. Stock A gives a return of 9% and Stock B gives a return of 6%. Stock A has a weight of 60% in the portfolio. What is the portfolio return?
With the use of insurance on whatever part of the portfolio is invested in the stock market.
Risk reflects the chance that the actual return on an investment may be very different than the expected return. One way to measure risk is to calculate the variance and standard deviation of the distribution of returns.Consider the probability distribution for the returns on stocks A and B provided below.StateProbabilityReturn onStock AReturn onStock B120%5%50%230%10%30%330%15%10%320%20%-10%The expected returns on stocks A and B were calculated on the Expected Return page. The expected return on Stock A was found to be 12.5% and the expected return on Stock B was found to be 20%.Given an asset's expected return, its variance can be calculated using the following equation:whereN = the number of states,pi = the probability of state i,Ri = the return on the stock in state i, andE[R] = the expected return on the stock.The standard deviation is calculated as the positive square root of the variance.Note: E[RA] = 12.5% and E[RB] = 20%Stock AStock B
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