Efficient frontier:
How much more return your risk could earn

An efficient frontier shows the most return you could expect for each level of risk, so you can see how far your portfolio sits from it.

PortfolioPilot plots your expected return and risk, marks the most a portfolio with a top Risk-adjusted Return grade would earn at the same risk, and shows the gap in dollars a year. The line is drawn from that grade, not from a search of every portfolio. Free.

Feature basics

Which plan you need
The Risk-adjusted Return chart. Included in the Free plan
Plots
Your expected return against your risk
Compares
The most a top-graded portfolio earns at your risk

What does the chart show?

The Portfolio Score page open on Risk-adjusted Return, with a hypothetical portfolio. Hover the chart.

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PortfolioPilot efficient frontier demo. The Portfolio Score page open on Risk-adjusted Return, with a hypothetical portfolio. Hover the chart.

The portfolio is hypothetical, and all figures are for demonstrative purposes only. Nothing shown is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

How it works

How the risk and return chart works in PortfolioPilot

Three steps from your accounts to the answer.

Step 1

Add your accounts

Connect brokerages, 401(k)s and IRAs, upload a statement, or enter holdings by hand.

Step 2

Open Risk-adjusted Return

In Improve, Portfolio Score, choose the Risk-adjusted Return card.

Step 3

Read the gap

See your point, the most at your risk, and the yearly dollar gap.

How to read it

What does the risk and return chart tell you?

Where you sit, and how to close the gap.

Your point

Expected return from PortfolioPilot's forecasts, risk as volatility.

Max at your risk

What a portfolio with a top Risk-adjusted Return grade would earn at the same risk.

Gap in dollars

The difference, times your portfolio value, as dollars a year.

Close the gap

The Portfolio Optimizer reweights what you own toward a better grade.

Next step

Act on your investing recommendations

Personalized Recommendations suggest specific trades and show how each one would change your Portfolio Score. Part of Gold.

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See how much your risk could earn

Add your accounts and see it for your own situation.

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Questions

Questions about the risk and return chart

Short answers here, with a link to the full help center article where one exists.

Is this a computed efficient frontier?

No. The upper line comes from a top Risk-adjusted Return grade at each risk level, not from testing every possible portfolio.

Where do I find it?

In Improve, Portfolio Score, on the Risk-adjusted Return card.

How do I move closer to the line?

Run the Portfolio Optimizer, or review the holdings that hurt the grade. Read more in the Help Center →

Is it free?

Yes. It is included in the Free plan.