I decided that this week will be a break from blogging. And so, I wish all of our Christian readers a blessed and very Merry Christmas; to our Jewish readers, a somewhat belated Happy Chanukah; and to everyone, a prosperous, healthy, safe and Happy New Year! May 2010...
Performance Perspectives Blog
Thoughts on performance measurement from David Spaulding and other members of our team.
A holiday break
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Technology survey
We are in the midst of completing our Performance Measurement Technology survey and are anxiously waiting to hear from you regarding your use of technology. So please respond today! As always: your information is kept confidential as a participant, you'll receive a...
“we shall see no more financial panics.”
With the U.S. Congress's plans to tinker with our current financial structure, including a weakening, or at least shifting, of the Federal Reserve's powers, one might expect someone to utter such a line as is shown above. Actually, this was spoken by Charles S....
Abbreviations & acronyms
This post has NOTHING to do with performance. It's the weekend, and I simply want to comment on the use of abbreviations and acronyms. First, I fully support their use. In fact, I favor even more use of them. Let's first consider the difference: as www.dictionary.com...
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
While we in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving today, everyone should no doubt be able to reflect on the things they give thanks for. My list is so very long. It includes our management and staff, our clients, our vendors, and colleagues. My wife and family are...
Classics reviewed!
We're pleased to announce that our new publication, Classics in Investment Performance Measurement, was reviewed by Jerry Tempelman, CFA, in the November issue of the CFA Institute and CIPM program's Investment Performance Measurement Newsletter. The book has been...
Performance Measurement Forum’s Autumn 2009 Meeting: Rome
Patrick Fowler and I are in Rome this week for the Autumn session for the European chapter of the group. This is the second time we've held the meeting in this beautiful and historic city (the first time was when Italy was still using lira) and the third in Italy (we...
Celebrating 20 years
This won't be the only time you'll read about this, but it may be the first: TSG has entered its 20th year in business! Why 20 years should be any more special than 19 or 21 is obviously because society tends to associate extra attention to dates ending with zero or...
Happy Columbus Day!
In spite of the pressure to do away with this holiday, there are many of us who fully support it, and so ... Happy Columbus Day!
Performance measured and rewarded?
I will rarely make any political comments here, but this time I simply can't help it. Yesterday's announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama is this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient is just too amazing to pass up. The beauty of investment performance measurement...