by David Spaulding | Oct 24, 2017 | GIPS, GIPS 20/20, GIPS standards, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy, superannuation fund
I’m in Sydney, Australia this week, where I spoke at the annual iPARM conference, and tomorrow will host, for the first time, a workshop titled Performance Measurement Trivia & Oddities. We will shortly put this on as a full day webinar (November 28),...
by David Spaulding | Sep 20, 2017 | Global Investment Performance Standards, GIPS, Investment Performance Guy
Getting quoted I spent about eight years in politics, from 1996 to 2004. In 1996 I ran for my township’s council, and lost. I was encouraged to run again, and the next year was elected by a “landslide.” Two years later, I ran for mayor, and...
by David Spaulding | Sep 12, 2017 | Verifier Independence, GIPS, GIPS 20/20, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, guidance statement, Guidance Statement on Verifier Independence, Investment Performance Guy
The Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R)) expects an asset manager or owner’s verifier to be independent, meaning that their assessment of the firm/organization must be objective, and not influenced by any other relationships or associations,...
by David Spaulding | Sep 7, 2017 | GIPS 20/20, GIPS, GIPS standards, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy
Announcing our “Keeping Up w/GIPS(r) Webinar” A lot is happening with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS). So much so, that it might be a tad overwhelming. You might be tempted to just ignore some of it, thinking “does it really...
by David Spaulding | Jul 31, 2017 | pension funds, asset owners, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy, IRR, money-weighted return, performance measurement, time-weighted return, time-weighting
This is the time of year when many pension funds report their returns for the prior fiscal year. And often, the reported returns were calculated using a time-weighted method. But, is this appropriate? Or, perhaps, is more needed? In my way of thinking, pension...
by David Spaulding | Jun 28, 2017 | precision, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy, performance measurement, Returns, risk
How much precision do we need? I’m a rounder: I confess. I’m fine rounding numbers. When I was mayor of the Township of North Brunswick (NJ) (2000-2003), our finance officer would deliver reports to me with precision to the penny; I told him just to...
