by admin | Aug 21, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Last week, during a talk I was giving to a group of operations folks, someone asked my thoughts on showing benchmarks to retail investors; specifically, those that are non-discretionary.It’s important to realize that benchmarks serve two purposes: first, as a...
by admin | Aug 16, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
For some time it’s been my view that time-weighting was oversold.That is, when nearly 50 years ago (1966, to be exact) Peter Dietz published his dissertation, promoting a return method to eliminate or reduce the impact of cash flows, his idea was so...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I am in Montana this week, conducting a session titled “Current Topics in Performance Measurement” for a conference of operations folks. One individual asked about combining time- and money-weighting into a single number. I think the idea lacks merit, as...
by admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It is quite common today to find firms revalue their portfolios for large cash flows. But what do we mean by “revalue”? Is “repricing” enough?Think about this scenario: On January 31 the portfolio holds 20 different stocks, along with some...
by admin | Aug 8, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
TSG has been surveying the industry for 20 years on a variety of topics. This year we focus once again on performance and risk measurement technology, with two surveys:One for the usersOne for the suppliers.Until now the suppliers’ survey has been sent only to...
by admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I was interviewed by Julie Steinberg of the WSJ for an article that appeared this week (“These Two Funds Picked a Really Bad Day to Debut,” August 5, page R1) regarding the impact contributions can have on a mutual fund’s performance. While...
