by admin | Jan 25, 2011 | M-squared, risk, Standard Deviation, tracking error
I was teaching our Fundamentals of Performance Measurement course yesterday and came upon a metaphor to use to justify the need for multiple views on risk: John Godfrey Saxe’s poem about the blind men and the elephant. You are no doubt familiar with the story,...
by admin | Jan 14, 2011 | Modigliani, risk
Bruce Feibel, author of Investment Performance Measurement, spoke at the Performance Measurement Forum’s North America chapter’s Fall meeting on the topic of risk. I was quite pleased when he expressed his support for the risk-adjusted measure, M-squared,...
by admin | Dec 13, 2010 | risk, risk management
You’ve no doubt heard the expression about the weather and no one doing anything about it. Well, we could apply the same idea to information, especially regarding risk, and how firms measure and manage it. There is great interest in understanding what firms are...
by admin | Jul 6, 2010 | risk, value at risk
I typically tell the students who attend our Fundamentals of Performance Measurement course that risk is the most challenging aspect of our industry. We can’t agree on what it means or how to measure it. And while many today see risk as either being the...
by admin | Jun 18, 2010 | risk
Bernd Fischer of Investment Data Services delivered a terrific presentation this week at the European meeting of the Performance Measurement Forum in London. Liquidity risk has been a rather difficult concept for me to get my arms around; granted, I haven’t...
by admin | Apr 13, 2010 | beta, risk
Fama & French’s famous paper, “The Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns” (The Journal of Finance, June 1972), is credited with the “Beta is Dead” suggestion, as a result of the empirical evidence to discredit the Capital Asset...
