The realized profit and loss, delay costs, and missed trade opportunity cost of the implementation shortfall are all affected by market movements that the manager should not be held accountable for. The implementation shortfall should be adjusted for market-wide movements, resulting in the a market-adjusted implementation shortfall. Over a few days, the alpha term is assumed to be zero, so no adjustment for the risk-free rate is necessary. If the market return was 1.2% over the time period of this trading and the beta was 1.3 for the stock, then the expected return for it would be 1.2% ×1.3 = 1.56%. Subtracting this from the 0.48% results in a market-adjusted implementation shortfall of 0.48% - 1.56% = -1.08%. |
