by admin | Jan 7, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
If you’re like me, the word “quotidian” is probably one you’re not terribly familiar with. Perhaps you don’t even see it in print regularly, though interestingly it appeared twice on page A15 of the July 26, 2011 edition of The Wall...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
We got picked up in another blog; kind of cute, so sharing it here!
by admin | Jan 5, 2012 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, risk
I often save clippings from newspapers and magazines, to refer back to at a future date. I just discovered one from the August 12, 2011 issue of the WSJ: it’s from their “op ed” section, titled “S&P 500 and the ‘Regulator’s...
by admin | Jan 3, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
As we begin a new year (and one of the “leap” variety, at that!), I wish to share with you further commentary from Henry Hitchings’ The Language Wars. Recall that I mentioned this book in a recent post. The reality is, there is much of what...
by admin | Dec 29, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
One of my Christmas presents this year was the book, The Language Wars, by Henry Hitchings. Not surprisingly, I have already discovered some great insights which translate well to our profession.Hitchings quotes American linguist William Dwight Whitney: “‘Every...
