by admin | Feb 29, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In today’s Financial Times, there’s a front page article that provides a ranking of the top hedge fund managers, by the dollars in profit they’ve produced. It points out that Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Pure Alpha) has surpassed the legendary George...
by admin | Feb 29, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It has been known for some time that Thomson was shopping their PORTIA suite of products. Well, we have just learned that SS&C Technologies has agreed to acquire it for $170 million This is huge news for the industry.I have speculated that SS&C might be...
by admin | Feb 28, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Last November’s WSJ’s had a Jason Zweig article in which he reminded us of Charles Mackay’s ’41 book on market bubbles, whose title serves as this post’s title. He pointed out how the author himself was fooled, just shortly after his book...
by admin | Feb 27, 2012 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, ret
I had a call on Friday from a longstanding friend and colleague who wanted to know whether she should use the beginning (VB) or ending (VE) values to asset weight portfolio returns. Let’s put this into context.This manager has a client whose history...
by admin | Feb 27, 2012 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, currency hedging, derivatives, forward contracts, futures contracts, performance attributions, performance measurement, rate of return calculations
Today’s webinar (February 27, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time) from TSG’s webinar series should be of great interest to Expert Level CIPM candidates, as I will be covering the subject of futures contracts and performance measurement.The webcast is actually...