by admin | Dec 19, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
When I teach our fundamentals of performance or attribution classes, I often mention how we adopt ideas from other segments of society. Measuring performance, for example, is found in many areas, with sports perhaps being the most thorough (with baseball leading the...
by admin | Dec 15, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Almost every day I receive questions from clients and others about various aspects of performance and risk. And for the most part I am able to respond, either with my opinion or an answer based on fact.What occurred yesterday in Newtown, CT leaves me, and no doubt...
by admin | Dec 14, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
At this month’s Fall (Autumn) Performance Measurement Forum meeting, which was held in one of my favorite cities (San Francisco), one member posed a question about ancillary systems (i.e., those systems that sit aside the packaged or programmed systems that most...
by admin | Dec 13, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Jason Zweig often provides inspiration for a blog post, and his article in this past weekend’s WSJ (“Are You Brilliant, or Lucky?”) has done just that. The subject of luck versus skill has been one that academics, as well as practitioners, have...
by admin | Dec 11, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
The long-awaited third edition of the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R)) Handbook is now available. This book is a companion whenever I do a verification. I find it to be an invaluable compendium to the Standards, and a valuable resource that helps...
by admin | Dec 10, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In last Friday’s WSJ, Cameron McWhirter had an article titled “To Quote Thomas Jefferson, ‘I Never Actually Said That,'” in which he refutes many quotes that are incorrectly attributed to our America’s third President (and one of our...
