by admin | Mar 3, 2011 | money-weighting, time-weighting
I am confident that anyone who has been involved with the development of software will agree that the first 90% of a project is much easier to accomplish than the last 10%; the balance sometimes takes “forever!” Even husbands who take on home projects...
by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, money-weighting, time-weighting
I love the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal. Invariably I find one or more articles to reference in one place or another. And this past weekend it was Matt Ridley’s “A Key Lesson of Adulthood: The Need to Unlearn.” As Matt so correctly put...
by admin | Jan 11, 2011 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, IRR, money-weighting, time-weighting
A client asked about the “general landscape among financial companies in terms of usage of different performance engines/performance calculations.” Specifically whether true daily or Modified Dietz is prevalent when it comes to portfolio and security level...
by admin | Oct 14, 2010 | money-weighting, time-weighting
During our Fundamentals of Investment Performance class, when we get to the discussion of time- versus money-weighting, a question arises as to why firms continue to exclusively employ time-weighting, when it’s quite clear that there’s a major role for...
by admin | Sep 22, 2010 | GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, money-weighting, time-weighting
If you’re a frequent reader of my blog and/or our firm’s newsletter, you know of my passion for money-weighting, especially when it comes to subportfolio returns.I’m teaching classes this week for a client and when we discussed subportfolio returns...
by admin | Aug 31, 2010 | money-weighting, time-weighting
A brokerage client just mentioned that one of their reps wants money-weighted returns at the subportfolio level. And I was asked to contrast the advantages and disadvantages of time- versus money-weighting. Well, in one respect he came to the wrong guy, because there...
