Returns & Performance
Geometric Mean Return
Definition
What is Geometric Mean Return?
The compounded average return per period.
Example in practice
How This Looks in Practice
A 50% gain followed by a 50% loss has a negative geometric return despite a zero arithmetic mean.
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