by admin | Aug 23, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
The above quote comes from Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness, which I started to read over the weekend while vacationing at the Jersey Shore (light reading). I’m finding that the book, as with his later Black Swans, has many interesting insights. But...
by admin | Aug 19, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I want to thank William McKibbin for introducing me to a new word: parallax. He used it in a response to one of my recent posts and I must admit that I was forced to look up its meaning, because it was new to me. Dr. McKibbin has a blog which I frequently visit, and...
by admin | Aug 16, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Last week I interviewed Northfield Information Services’ founder and president, Dan diBartolomeo for The Journal of Performance Measurement(R). Dan shared many insights with me, and I’m sure our readers will find his thoughts and comments quite compelling....
by admin | Aug 14, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
An interesting question was posed to me recently; one that I hadn’t previously thought about. A client who wants to become compliant with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R)) has three strategies, each of which has been in existence for 20...
by admin | Jul 22, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I’m reviewing a client’s performance measurement system and came across an interesting example of how negative market values can wreak havoc with your reporting. What I’ll be showing aren’t exactly the numbers, but the problem is the same. We...
by admin | Jul 21, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
What a blog title, huh? Anyway, you’ll soon get my point. In last night’s game against the Cleveland Indians, with men on first and second and one out, the Minnesota Twins did what they’re supposed to do: move the runners along. And so, they had...
