A trademarked method for calculating the risk of an asset portfolio. RiskGrades are ba
sed on a variance-covariance approach that measures the volatility of assets or asset portfolios as the scaled standard deviations of the returns.
More complex RiskGrades calculations allow for a few additio
nal concepts:
|||RiskGrades were developed by JPMorgan. You can use RiskGrades to determine the level of risk in your portfolio ba
sed on the following numbers:
The RG of a risk-free asset is expected to be 0
The RG of a low-risk asset is expected to be 0 - 100
Normal stocks/indexes should have an RG of 100 - 300
Stocks with an RG of 100 - 800 are considered high risk
IPOs have an RG greater than 800