Jed Schneider, CIPM, FRM is a guest blogger, offering some of his impressions from TSG's recent performance attribution survey.-----------------------------Every year, TSG puts out a survey to the investment industry focusing on a performance related topic. Last...
Performance Perspectives Blog
Thoughts on performance measurement from David Spaulding and other members of our team.
Attribution survey findings, in brief
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Are Performance Measurement Professionals Creative?
I am adjusting the title of a post that William McKibbin had last week, titled "Are Mathematicians Creative." Given that my undergrad degree (from Temple University) is in math, and that math is clearly a huge part of performance and risk measurement, I guess I...
Reminder: Free Webinar This Monday!
Reminder! This coming Monday, April 23rd at 11:00 am (EST), Jed Schneider, CIPM, FRM will discuss highlights from TSG's recent performance attribution survey. He will present findings, and compare the results with previous years' surveys. You will also have...
ATTENTION! Performance attribution survey results to be shared in a FREE webinar!
On Monday, April 23rd at 11:00 am (EST), Jed Schneider, CIPM, FRM will discuss highlights from TSG's recent performance attribution survey. Jed will present findings, and compare the results with previous years' surveys. You will have the opportunity to submit...
Celebrating the 10th with gusto!
Almost 30 years ago, when my wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary, we marked the occasion with special gifts for one another (she gave me a gold watch, which I still use (I'd better!)). For our 25th, we went to Disney World (her choice) and our 35th saw...
Why do we refuse to see the flaws in our beliefs?
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an interview with Nobel Prize winner and author Daniel Kahneman, regarding his new book, Thinking Fast and Slow ("So Much for Snap Decisions," by Diane Cole). I am still making my way through the book, and continue to find much of...
Happy Easter & Happy Passover
Math Mystery
In the March 27, 2012 issue of the WSJ, Dan Fitzpatrick and Victoria McGrane discussed how large banks who released "stress test" results are being questioned by the Federal Reserve on the approaches they took to derive their results ("Banks Stress Over Fed Test...
John Simpson speaks at First Rate annual conference
This week, my friend and colleague, John D. Simpson, CIPM spoke at First Rate's annual user conference. As I understand it, this event had a record attendance. And while I'd like to think that it's because John was there, I know there was much more to it (for...
Turning lemons into lemonade
We just discovered that we had a printing error with the second edition of my Handbook of Investment Performance: we left off part of the bibliography.Now, you might think this isn't a big deal, but for a firm that prides itself on the highest quality in all we...