Investment performance is thereturn on aninvestment portfolio,^[1] which can contain a single asset or multiple assets.

A single-asset investor will only hold one kind of stock, unlike multiple asset investors. The single-investor fund structure often is investor run. Single-investor funds often are requested, or even required, by investors seeking a kind of structure.^[2]

Multi-asset class investments increase thediversification of an overall portfolio by having multiple investments throughout different classes, reducing risks likevolatility. A multi-asset class investor might hold stocks,bonds, cash, andreal property.^[3]

• Absolute investment performance
• Absolute return
• Financial risk management § Investment management
• Holding period return
• Modified Dietz Method
• Internal Rate of Return
• Rate of return
• Relative return
• Risk-adjusted return on capital
• Simple Dietz Method

Bruce J. Feibel. Investment Performance Measurement. New York: Wiley, 2003.ISBN 0-471-26849-6

• Investment