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...
by admin | Jul 7, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
“Well, no offense to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard I have come to find that passion is a key ingredient to the study and practice of law”also sprach Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) in Legally BlondI have come to find that passion is a key...
by admin | Jul 3, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
As we witness the struggles of many throughout the world who strive for freedom that we, here in the United States, and many others throughout the world have, we should be mindful of our own blessings. Achieving and maintaining freedom isn’t free…it comes...
by admin | Jun 10, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
This morning Patrick Fowler and I arrived in beautiful (though wet) Stockholm, Sweden for the Spring meeting of the European chapter of the Performance Measurement Forum. This site marks the fourth Scandinavian country we’ve held meetings in (previous ones were...