by admin | Jun 27, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout provides a very interesting series of observations on complexity, as it relates to writing and music: “Too Complicated for Words.” He cites a paper by Fred Lerdahl, which speaks directly on complexity...
by admin | Jun 24, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
The title for this post comes from the book of Job (chapter 13, verse 18). It occurred to me that this is quite applicable when we consider the debate on money- vs. time-weighting. I know that some of you are saying “no, not again!!!,” but it’s a...
by admin | Jun 22, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I taught a class yesterday and, as I typically do, when I got to the topic of peer groups I mentioned one of its disadvantages: questionable makeup of the universe. That is, does the manager belong here?And, as I typically do, I cited an episode of Seinfeld to make my...
by admin | Jun 17, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
As noted to the right of this blog post, John Simpson, CIPM will host a webinar on June 25th at 12:00 noon (EST) to discuss the changes that have occurred to the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) program. John and I were “pioneers”...
by admin | Jun 10, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It wasn’t too long ago that I reported that we had reached 1,000 unique visitors to our blog; well, we now have had 2,000! Thank you for visiting. And thanks to all who occasionally post comments, as these are helpful in providing various perspectives.
by admin | Jun 6, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I’m usually better at remembering anniversaries … June 2 marked the one year anniversary of this blog. And 250+ entries later, with close to 2,000 visitors, we’re still going strong. I greatly appreciate the comments that have come in and continue to...
