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Jensen Measure

A measure of investment performance estimated from the intercept of a regression of a portfolio's excess returns over the risk free return on a benchmark's excess returns. The benchmark is usually the market line of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. The Jensen measure is suitable for evaluating a portfolio's performance relative to other portfolios, because it is based on systematic risk rather than total risk. Also called Alpha (2).

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