How many bets for an information ratio of 0.75?

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You want an annualized information ratio of 0.75, and your forecasting signal has an information coefficient (IC) of 0.05 per bet. How many independent bets per year do you need?

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The Fundamental Law, rearranged. The information ratio is skill times the square root of breadth, so solving for breadth: IR = IC 	imes \sqrt{BR} \quad\Longrightarrow\quad BR = \left(\frac{IR}{IC}ight)^2. Plug in the numbers. With target IR = 0.75 and IC = 0.05: BR = \left(\frac{0.75}{0.05}ight)^2 = 15^2 = 225 	ext{ bets per year}. Interpretation. You need about 225 independent bets a year. A crucial caveat lurks in the word "independent": if your 225 bets are actually correlated (say, 225 tech stocks that move together), the effective breadth is far smaller and the real IR falls well s…

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