by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I’m sitting in the Lufthansa business class lounge, preparing to return home, after spending a few days in Budapest, Hungary, where we held our 51st meeting of The Performance Measurement Forum. The reading material includes the WSJ’s European edition...
by admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar frequently interjects jokes into his presentations. One deals with a Roman Catholic girl who was asked by her Baptist boyfriend to marry him. This occurred many years ago, when such “mixed marriages” were often frowned upon. When the...
by admin | Nov 9, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
One of our GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) verification clients posed the following question: “We have had the question come up here as to whether a potential limited partner in a partnership that we manage (managed in a similar manner to a...
by admin | Nov 7, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards
I did not attend this year’s annual GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) conference in Chicago, though we sponsored it, and four of my colleagues were present. I learned that someone raised a question which I put forward here a few days ago,...
by admin | Nov 5, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Dippin’ Dots’ claim of being the “ice cream of the future” appears to have been a bit aggressive, as it declared for bankruptcy.Granted, this bold statement was merely their tag line, and perhaps some could foresee ice cream actually...
