Stutzer Index

What does it Mean? A performance measure that rewards portfolios with a lower probability of underperforming a benchmark. Technically, the Stutzer index penalizes negative skewness and high kurtosis - such a distribution will have a lower Stutzer index than a normal distribution with the same mean and variance.
Investopedia Says... This measure differs from the Sharpe ratio in that it does not assume that returns are normally distributed (bell-shaped). Instead, it takes into account the shape of the distribution of returns. Where the distribution is normal, the Stutzer index and Sharpe ratio are identical.

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Kurtosis
Modern Portfolio Theory - MPT
Risk
Sharpe Ratio
Skewness
Standard Deviation
Volatility

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