by admin | Aug 20, 2012 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, GIPS, GIPS pre-verification, GIPS verification
One of the Learning Outcome Statements at the Expert Level requires CIPM candidates to know the pre-verification procedures and verification procedures prescribed in the GIPS standards. A common question that I get is how to tell whether something is a...
by admin | Aug 6, 2012 | annualization, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, CIPM formulae, CIPM Principles, geometric linking, GIPS, time-weighted return
Most performance analysts have heard it said that we should never annualize returns of less than one year. Some may also be aware that GIPS provision I.5.A.4 (2010 edition of GIPS) forbids compliant firms from annualizing returns for periods of less than a...
by admin | Jun 6, 2012 | CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, Investment Performance Guy, News
Just in case you didn’t notice, CFA Institute has indicated on their web page that the exam results for the Spring 2012 window will be sent to candidates soon:CIPM Exam Results April 2012 exam results will be e-mailed after 9:00 a.m. ET on 13 June.Hope you all...
by admin | Apr 9, 2012 | CIPM, CIPM exam prep, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM Principles, CIPM sample questions, private equity, real estate
A Principles level candidate sent me the following question:Hi John,The CFA institute website has 15 sample questions for the principles exam on their website for anyone considering the program at the below link. Question 14 asks about GIPS private equity valuation...
by admin | Apr 8, 2012 | base currency returns, CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, local currency returns, multicurrency performance measurement, rate of return calculations, return compounding
In a previous blog post, I covered the answers to two CIPM Expert Level sample exam questions, specifically, #5 and #6. One current Expert Level candidate asked me to elaborate on the answer, asking which formula(e) in the curriculum could be used to...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | attribution analysis, CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM formulae, CIPM formulas, CIPM Principles, performance calculations, performance measurement, rate of return calculations, risk calculations, risk measurement
I am teaching TSG’s prep class for the CIPM Principles and Expert level exams this week in Chicago, and it became apparent to me that most of the students in the class were not aware that CFA Institute has a “List of Formulas” document as part of the...
