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,...
by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I’m sitting in the Lufthansa business class lounge, preparing to return home, after spending a few days in Budapest, Hungary, where we held our 51st meeting of The Performance Measurement Forum. The reading material includes the WSJ’s European edition...
by admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar frequently interjects jokes into his presentations. One deals with a Roman Catholic girl who was asked by her Baptist boyfriend to marry him. This occurred many years ago, when such “mixed marriages” were often frowned upon. When the...
