by admin | Jul 8, 2009 | GIPS
I’m responsible this week for posting questions on Blackboard for a class I’m taking: Blackboard is interactive software that supports the creation of threads for online discussions. The topic is mean variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing...
by admin | Jul 7, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
“Well, no offense to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard I have come to find that passion is a key ingredient to the study and practice of law”also sprach Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) in Legally BlondI have come to find that passion is a key...
by admin | Jul 6, 2009 | GIPS, risk, Standard Deviation
At last count there are almost 120 comment letters on the GIPS website regarding the proposed changes to the standards (visit https://www.gipsstandards.org/news/releases/2009/view_comments.html). Some are as short as a paragraph or two, while others exceed 20 pages....
by admin | Jul 3, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
As we witness the struggles of many throughout the world who strive for freedom that we, here in the United States, and many others throughout the world have, we should be mindful of our own blessings. Achieving and maintaining freedom isn’t free…it comes...
by admin | Jul 2, 2009 | IRR, money-weighting
We were recently contacted by a client who had a scenario where the IRR produced multiple solutions. This isn’t rare, but also isn’t that common an occurrence in investing. Multiple solutions can arise when we have a series of in- and outflows. There is no...
