by admin | Aug 24, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
TSG offers Operational Reviews and Software Certifications, both of which expose us to formulas that firms put into use. Sometimes, they are variations of formulas that have been around for years; but occasionally, they’re brand new; ones the clients...
by admin | Aug 23, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
This post’s headline comes from a book by the late Chet Holmes. It’s doubtful, very doubtful, that anyone would disagree with such a statement. Our firm provides several training courses, but nothing that deals specifically with technology...
by admin | Aug 21, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Carl Bacon, CIPM, when asked to contrast geometric and arithmetic attribution, will no doubt point out the chief advantages geometric offers:Proportional: the active return is a ratio, not a difference, as we find with arithmetic. Convertible: the active return is...
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I am home this week, working on my doctoral dissertation proposal, and need references to cite for a “personal rate of return.” And so, like any good researcher, I began with a “Google search,” and found the “Finance guy’s”...
by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It was just yesterday that I commented on a WSJ article that spoke of the potential misuse of statistics. And today, in this very paper, on the top of page B1 we read the headline “BMW’s ‘Demo’ Sales Boost Results.” The article speaks of...
by admin | Aug 14, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In today’s WSJ, William McGurn has an article on John James Cowperthwaite (“Go for Bust, Mr. Romney”), which provides some background into Hong Kong’s phenomenal success (he cites, for example, the rise in per capita income relative to Great...
