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a measure of the rate of return per unit of variability of an investment portfolio, obtained by subtracting the the current risk-free rate of return from the portfolio's current rate of return and dividing the result by the ''standard deviation'' of its rate of return.
Measure of the rate of return per unit of variability of an investment portfolio, obtained by subtracting the current [[risk-free interest rate]] from the portfolio's current rate of return and dividing the result by the [[standard deviation]] of its rate of return.

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Sharpe ratio [r]: Measure of the rate of return per unit of variability of an investment portfolio, obtained by subtracting the current risk-free interest rate from the portfolio's current rate of return and dividing the result by the standard deviation of its rate of return.