by admin | Sep 5, 2009 | Madoff
This weekend’s WSJ provides even more details on how the SEC failed to uncover Madoff’s antics, in spite of the numerous warnings that were provided to them. One especially nice addition is that they point us to the SEC’s report, appropriately titled...
by admin | Sep 4, 2009 | risk
You might begin by asking “who said risk is hard?” Well, for starters, I did! And why would I say such a horrid thing? Let’s begin with a simple question: what is risk? That is, how would YOU define risk? The answers tend to vary, but include...
by admin | Sep 3, 2009 | Madoff
The more we hear, the more shocked we become: I responded to the initial revelations that the SEC had failed to properly check out Bernie Madoff based on the following: SEC is told that Bernie’s numbers are too good to be true SEC’s response: “come...
by admin | Sep 2, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
A few weeks ago I began monitoring traffic on the blog. And while I can’t tell who is logging in, I can tell where they’re connecting from. And so far we’ve been accessed from at least 23 countries: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada,...
by admin | Sep 2, 2009 | compliance, GIPS
The comic Dilbert has recently had a few strips that very much relate to our industry: Yesterday’s, for example dealt with establishing industry standards off of Dilbert’s company’s specs (knowing how good his company is, we can only imagine what...
