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Performance Perspectives Blog
Thoughts on performance measurement from David Spaulding and other members of our team.

TSG Hires Steve Sobhi to head up our western region sales

One possible reason for the reluctance to hear different views
The weekend WSJ often provides fodder for this blog, though this is the first that I recall it came from Peggy Noonan. Her assessment of Thursday's Vice Presidential debate ("Confusing Strength With Aggression") in this past weekend's edition was quite insightful. But...

Valuing securities with stale prices for GIPS compliance
I am preparing to meet with a hedge fund client who wants to comply with GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards). As part of this preparation I am revisiting the recently published Guidance Statement on Alternative Investment Strategies and Structures. This...

Mixing currency returns
A software vendor client of ours described a situation involving one of their clients. Until a certain date, the portfolio's return was in US Dollars (USD). After that date, it was in Japanese Yen (JPY). The question: can we link these periodic returns?My initial...

True or False: Verification verifies a firm’s claim of compliance with GIPS?
In TSG's Fundamentals of Performance and GIPS(R) Fundamentals courses, I often pose this question to attendees:Verification verifies a firm's compliance with GIPS: true or false? Simple question, right? What does it mean to be verified?Is it not intuitive that...

Announcing Free One-Day Fundamentals of GIPS Workshops
TSG has offered training for close to 20 years, including our one-day GIPS Fundamentals Workshop. To date we've trained over 3,500 individuals throughout the world (all over the United States, in several cities in Canada, various parts of Europe, in South...

Rating the ways to present performance to prospective clients
I am conducting a "non-GIPS(R)" verification this week for a client who uses "rep" (representative) account performance for marketing purposes. This particular firm is not easily able to comply with GIPS (Global Investment Performance Standards) today, and so this...

Responding to a GIPS Composite Question
We were recently sent the following question, that relates to GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) and composites:What becomes of a composites performance if the strategy (value, growth, etc) remains the same, but a new team of portfolio managers and...

TSG Wants To Hear From You
Well, maybe.We want to hear from you if you are an asset manager who IS or IS NOT compliant with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R)).We are wrapping up our survey, and you have only another week or so to join in.The survey will take you less than 10...

Universal Advisor Performance Standards rule … or soon will
TSG, BrightScope, and the UAPS (Universal Advisor Performance Standards) board of advisors are continuing to move forward with the review of the first draft of these new standards. We are quite pleased that interest in them continues to grow. And this makes sense, as...