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MAINT: Update whatsnew for empyrical changes
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Ana Ruelas committed Aug 23, 2016
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21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions docs/source/whatsnew/1.0.2.txt
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produced a True on N or more days in the previous ``window_length``
days (:issue:`1367`).

- Use external library empyrical for risk calculations. Empyrical unifies risk
metric calculations between pyfolio and zipline. Empyrical adds custom
annualization options for returns of custom frequencies. (:issue:`855`)

Bug Fixes
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simply discarded before averaging, giving the remaining values too much
weight (:issue:`1309`).

- Remove risk-free rate from sharpe ratio calculation. The ratio is now the
average of risk adjusted returns over violatility of adjusted
returns. (:issue:`853`)

- Sortino ratio will return calculation instead of np.nan when required returns
are equal to zero. The ratio now returns the average of risk adjusted returns
over downside risk. Fixed mislabeled API by converting `mar` to
`downside_risk`. (:issue:`747`)

- Downside risk now returns the square root of the mean of downside
difference squares. (:issue:`747`)

- Information ratio updated to return mean of risk adjusted returns over
standard deviation of risk adjusted returns. (:issue:`1322`)

- Alpha and sharpe ratio are now annualized. (:issue:`1322`)

Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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cachetools==1.1.5

# For financial risk calculations
empyrical>=0.1.9
empyrical==0.1.9

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