by David Spaulding | May 25, 2017 | asset owners, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, internal rate of return, Investment Performance Guy, IRR, performance measurement, time-weighted return, time-weighting, TWR
The revised GIPS for Asset Owners guidance statement hasn’t yet been finalized, but we can pretty much expect that the time-weighted composite return requirement will remain. At a recent NYSSA (New York Society of Security Analysts) GIPS program, that I...
by David Spaulding | Oct 26, 2016 | time-weighted, BAI, Bank Administration Institute, Investment Performance Guy, performance measurement, time-weighted return, time-weighting
Why is it called time-weighted returns? Before I answer this question, it might help to explain where the terms “time-weighting” and “time-weighted” come from. It’s not what you may think. No, Peter Dietz, who gave us the “Original...
by David Spaulding | Jun 14, 2016 | rates of return, Investment Performance Guy, money-weighted return, money-weighting, time-weighted return, time-weighting
I recently conducted a software certification for a software vendor. I found some issues with their application of rates of return, and we’ve been going back-and-forth on it. One issue that arose was my belief that money-weighting is the appropriate...
by David Spaulding | Apr 4, 2016 | rates of return, Investment Performance Guy, money-weighted return, time-weighting
We’ve been asked by a client to construct a single day, fairly intensive class on rates of return. Much of the material for the class comes from our Fundamentals of Investment Performance class, which we’ve been teaching for nearly 18 years. As...
by TSG | Mar 21, 2015 | money-weighting, Performance Perspectives Newsletter, time-weighting
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by admin | Jan 13, 2012 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Modified Dietz, money-weighting, time-weighting
Last year John Stossel wrote a piece titled “Almost Everything We’re Taught Is Wrong.” When it comes to performance measurement, there’s some truth to this, too. Sorrowfully, many refuse to be open to the possibility that the way they’ve...
