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Treynor Ratio

Excess return per unit of market (systematic) risk.

Treynor divides excess return by beta rather than total volatility, so it rewards return per unit of non-diversifiable risk. It is most meaningful for a well-diversified portfolio where idiosyncratic risk is already gone.

Treynor = (R_p − R_f) / β_p