by admin | Jun 9, 2011 | attribution, currency
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, the editorial writer Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. wrote a piece about Goldman Sachs, explaining how they, and their chairman, Lloyd Blankfein, are being vindicated, as the SEC’s attempt to shift attention from their (the...
by admin | Jun 8, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
There was an editorial (The Light Bulb Police) in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that spoke of the upcoming ban in the U.S. on conventional 100 watt incandescent light bulbs. One sentence in particular grabbed my attention: “The question an (allegedly)...
by admin | Jun 6, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In his weekend column for The Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig points out a method that some advisors have apparently used to outperform (or at least increase their chances of outperforming) their benchmark: simply calculate the return of the index without taking...
by admin | Jun 3, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
In case you hadn’t heard, TSG, Inc., has hired Jed Schneider, CIPM, FRM, formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Jed is being brought on to head the firm’s verification business (GIPS(R)) and non-GIPS), and is titled a Senior Vice President.Because of the...
by admin | Jun 2, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
A letter I wrote appears in the most recent issue (May 30) of Pensions & Investments, that’s in response to a letter Jonathan Boersma wrote (April 18), which was in response to one I had written (February 21), in response to an earlier article (December 27,...
