by admin | Aug 23, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It recently occurred to me how these two words, insights and perspectives, play a non insignificant (i.e., significant) role in performance measurement. I often reference both when I teach, but thought it appropriate to share some views here with you.InsightsMy...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Earlier this year, the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R)) Executive Committee published a draft guidance statement which expands the reach of GIPS into the asset owner world. I have commented briefly on it here before, and wrote an article for Pensions...
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...
