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Title: A new information criterion for the Sharpe ratio Authors:  Dirk Paulsen - John Street Capital LLP (United Kingdom)
Jakob Soehl - Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) [presenting]
Abstract: When the in-sample Sharpe ratio is obtained by optimizing over a k-dimensional parameter space, it is a biased estimator for what can be expected on unseen data (out-of-sample). We derive (1) an unbiased estimator adjusting for both sources of bias: noise fit and estimation error. We then show (2) how to use the adjusted Sharpe ratio as model selection criterion analogously to the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). Selecting a model with the highest adjusted Sharpe ratio selects the model with the highest estimated out-of-sample Sharpe ratio in the same way as selection by AIC does for the log-likelihood as measure of fit.