by admin | Apr 17, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I, like many others, was surprised by the revelation that Goldman Sachs has been charged with defrauding investors. While my research into this is somewhat limited at this time, I couldn’t help but be struck by a statement in today’s Wall Street Journal...
by admin | Apr 8, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
The start of the baseball season never disappoints in providing metaphorical examples to use relative to performance measurement. Watching ESPN this morning an announcer commented on St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols’ early season home run success,...
by admin | Apr 6, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I just finished listening to Gregory Zuckerman’s The Greatest Trade Ever and highly recommend it if you’d like some insights into how John Paulson managed to make several billion dollars in a difficult market. Much of the profit came from the rather...
by admin | Mar 29, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Just when you thought it was safe. Years ago some folks thought that simply the use of certain software would automatically make them compliant with the AIMR-PPS(R) and/or GIPS(R) standards. But by now, we would think that this myth would have gone away. But it...
by admin | Mar 18, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In our Fundamentals of Performance Measurement course I often mention the ailment known as “rootaphobia,” or the “fear of roots” (as in square roots; the root symbol). I later mention “tulipomania.” And while the former is...
by admin | Mar 16, 2010 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I just posted a dozen tips to choose a verifier and mentioned a couple times the issue of “reputational risk.”If you don’t think avoiding this risk is important, I have two words for you: Tiger Woods.The photo’s announcement of Tiger’s...
