by admin | Aug 29, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
A few years back someone began a website, investment-performance.com, to provide a variety of services, including a way to get questions answered. They asked me, along with a few others, to serve as moderators. And periodically I’d offer comments.Well, earlier...
by admin | Aug 24, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen many indicators of a turnaround for the economy at large and the market in specific. The very wide and dynamic intraday shifts in the DJIA, for example, seem to have dissipated, and bad news doesn’t cause the market to...
by admin | Aug 15, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Happy the man who meditates on wisdom,and reflects on knowledge.Sirach 15: 20.When we learned of the Madoff fraud, we knew that he couldn’t have pulled it off singlehandedly; he had to have coconspirators. And this week we learned of one, who had been with him a...
by admin | Aug 2, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
We are especially blessed with the arrival of our first grandson, Brady David Spaulding, born to our son, Christopher, and his wife, Monica, Saturday, August 1, @ 10:27 PM, at St. Peters Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. Weighing in at 6 lbs, 12 ounces, and with a height...
by admin | Jul 28, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Jim Johnson, Philadelphia Eagles Defensive Coordinator, died today of cancer (see https://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4362252). What, you may ask, does this have to do with performance measurement?On January 28,2005, the Home News Tribune (a NJ paper) ran a...
by admin | Jul 10, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Back on June 22nd I commented about a discussion I had with a colleague regarding the use of the term “volatility” for standard deviation and whether or not “variability” was more accurate.I sent a note to Bill Sharpe, who in his 1966 Journal...
