by admin | Dec 27, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It’s that time of year when folks begin to think about things they want to change come the new year.It occurred to me that wisdom from one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters, Yoda, might serve us well. After all, he was known for his legendary wisdom...
by admin | Dec 25, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
When I was 15 I met Ian Harvey when I joined the Order of DeMolay (a Masonic-sponsored group for young men). We became friends and remained very good friends until his death from cancer, five years ago. Ian was Jewish, and he said how he really liked it when...
by admin | Dec 19, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
We are very excited about a new service TSG announced last week: “Software Certification.” While the type of work isn’t new for us, as we’ve reviewed many firms’ performance systems for close to 20 years, the formalizing of it is. We...
by admin | Nov 30, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
One of our clients sent us a note recently, which stated that one of their clients told them there is a “standard to report alternative investments as net-of-fee, and to combine these with gross-of-fee returns.” This “standard” apparently is...
by admin | Nov 23, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
My son, Douglas, gave me Rules of Civility by Amor Towles for my birthday. And while I don’t often read novels, the review in the WSJ painted it as a book I should read (it likened it to The Great Gatsby, and after finishing it I can see why). Given that...
by admin | Nov 18, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
When I was an undergrad math major at Temple University, roughly 40 years ago, a professor, who was teaching a Numbers Theory course, mentioned that there were three things mathematicians should always remember: the Pythagorean Theorem, Fermat’s Last Equation,...
