by admin | Oct 26, 2009 | GIPS, money-weighting, time-weighting
Several years ago I pleaded with the then, “powers that be,” to loosen the rules regarding the use of IRR for GIPS(R) compliant firms. At that time, the ONLY asset class for which the rules applied was private equity. The soon-to-be-published GIPS 2010...
by admin | Oct 21, 2009 | GIPS
Last Wednesday I offered some thoughts regarding verifier independence and perhaps wasn’t clear. Simply because a firm does a client’s audit shouldn’t preclude them from taking on the verification. Independence needs to be reviewed regarding the full...
by admin | Oct 17, 2009 | After-tax, GIPS
In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig discusses the importance of being conscious of fees. Our industry has worked towards encouraging managers to be more forthright regarding the impact of fees, but perhaps more is needed. After-tax returns is an...
by admin | Oct 14, 2009 | GIPS, verification
GIPS(R) has verifier independence guidance which is intended to ensure that a firm claiming compliance with the Standards is having a verification truly done by an independent third party. But what does this term really mean? We see two sides to it: First, is there a...
by admin | Oct 13, 2009 | GIPS, hedge funds
We are finding more and more hedge funds pursuing GIPS(r) compliance. We are pleased to see such interest as well as to count hedge fund managers among our verification clients. While some believe that GIPS says everything that’s necessary regarding hedge funds,...
by admin | Oct 11, 2009 | GIPS
The current issue of The Journal of Finance (October, 2009) has an article by Bollen & Pool titled “Do Hedge Fund Managers Misreport Returns? Evidence from the Pooled Distribution.” It seems that there’s “a sharp discontinuity in...
