Original Articles

Investment basics XVII What is the return on your investment?

Published in: Investment Analysts Journal
Volume 14 , issue 26 , 1985 , pages: 59–61

DOI: 10.1080/10293523.1985.11082242

Author(s): C Firer

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of what the appropriate methodology is for calculating holding period returns on risky investments in order to correctly specify the return to the investor and permit of inter-investment comparison especially when holding periods of different lengths are involved.

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