Information Coefficient (IC)

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Information Coefficient (IC)
The relation between actual and projected stock returns, at times used to evaluate the contribution of a financial analyst. A perfect linear relation between the two returns is represented by an IC of 1.0 while an IC of 0.0 indicates that there is no linear relationship between the predicted and actual returns.

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