by admin | Dec 15, 2011 | gross of fees, net of fees
There has been a bit of a debate on one of the Linkedin groups lately, regarding the proper way to derive net-of-fee returns, when the fees come out of the corpus of the account. I happen to like this topic, and wrote an article on it for the CFA Institute some time...
by admin | Dec 14, 2011 | attribution
I am working on a research project, where I am creating a variety of portfolios to compare the implementation of transaction-based attribution versus holdings-based. I began this study more than a year ago with my first test portfolio, and am now putting several more...
by admin | Dec 9, 2011 | error correction, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
We held a webinar on Monday devoted to the GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) Error Correction Guidance Statement. As I pointed out in the session, this GS is one of the most confusing that has been offered, though the newest version is definitely much...
by admin | Dec 8, 2011 | attribution, performance attribution
I got an email from a client recently, asking how one should treat the case where a manager has zero exposure to one of the sectors in the benchmark.If you are using one of the Brinson models and simply use the formulas as written, you’ll find that the...
by admin | Dec 5, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
One of our GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) verification clients may be changing their name soon. What is the requirement for dealing with this?Well, technically there is nothing explicit that I have found which deals with this matter: a quick check...
