by admin | Jun 25, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
“It’s good to be king” (King Louis XVI, from History of the World, Part I)Responsibility for crafting rules can be quite a challenge, hefty responsibility, and difficult undertaking. It’s so easy for things not to work out as we’d...
by admin | Jun 24, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Surely I am not the only one whose reaction to this photo and caption on the front page of this weekend’s WSJ was different than what was intended.”Germany Celebrates Greek Exit”?!?!?!From what? The Euro?Nah. From the European Cup. I was in Dublin...
by admin | Jun 20, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
While a number of senior performance measurement professionals have taken and passed the CIPM® (Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement) exams (e.g., Carl Bacon, Sandra Hahn-Colbert, Douglas Lempereur, Annie Lo, Neil Riddles, Debi Rossi, Tim Ryan, Jed...
by admin | Jun 19, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
At this year’s PMAR (Performance Measurement, Attribution & Risk) North America and PMAR Europe conferences, I provided an update on research I’m doing, contrasting the results by using monthly holdings-based attribution versus monthly...
by admin | Jun 15, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Thanks to Philip Lawton for posting this news. Make that, exciting news. As Philip explained, the Canadian Securities Administrators have proposed amendments to the National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations (NI...
by admin | Jun 15, 2012 | Investment Performance Guy, News
The CFA Institute announced earlier this week that 46% of those who sat for the CIPM’s Expert exam passed. Congratulations to these 98 performance measurement professionals who successfully demonstrated their expertise in the various areas of investment...