It the core of the fund analysis activity lies the twin pursuits of judging returns and risk. Stripped of a lot of the complexity, this task involves determining a fund's average performance over a period of time. Let's get down to basics and take a refresher course on this concept. Why do we use an average? Why don't we use the actual numbers that the average is calculated from? Obviously, because an average gives us a single value that represents the numbers it is calculated from. It is far easier to use a single number for judgement and comparisons. But like most things in life, averages can be both good and bad. They can be trustworthy, or they can be worthless, or they can be anywhere between the two. For example, the average age of children in a kindergarten is three years. You could walk into a kindergarten expecting most kids to be more-or-less three years old and you would not be wrong. However, the average age of students in a school is 12 years. You could walk i...
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