by admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
How long before you report risk measures as part of your performance?Returns can be shown for a day, a few days, a week, a month, a quarter, a year, etc. Risk statistics typically rely upon a series of returns. But how many and which ones?The standard seems to be 36....
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It occurred to me that we could spend some focused time on the issue of time (pun intended). Let us begin with rates of return.One of the ironies of performance measurement is that the term “time-weighting” has really nothing to do with the weighting of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I occasionally describe the formulas we use as a series of bifurcations, starting with time- and money-weighting. And, sometimes I begin with a graphical representation. Well, this morning, I decided to take that graphic to its nth degree, and solicited input from my...
by admin | Oct 7, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I was struck by a front page story in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “Buffett’s Crisis-Lending Haul Reaches $10 Billion.” But it was actually the summary under “What’s News” that initially got my attention:...
by admin | Oct 4, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I didn’t anticipate a third posting on this topic, but I received an interesting note from a reader that I wanted to share and comment on:I disagree with your thoughts on using “arithmetic relative” when considering material differences in portfolio...
by admin | Oct 3, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
When comparing geometric and arithmetic attribution, the following are often cited as advantages of the former:it’s compoundable (meaning, that it links attribution effects over time without creating temporal residuals)it’s convertible (that is, when we...
