Etymology

Sharpe ratio

Today it means: A ratio that measures the excess return (or risk premium) per unit of deviation in an investment asset or a trading strategy, used to examine the performance of an investment by adjusting for its risk. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

Named after William F. Sharpe (born 1934), American economist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.