by David Spaulding | Jul 28, 2014 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Give credit where credit is due: the late Dr. Stephen Covey did a masterful job with his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It became a well-deserved international best seller. Surely we can adopt the concept and apply it to our industry; specifically,...
by David Spaulding | Jul 24, 2014 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I’m in Hong Kong this week, teaching both our Fundamentals of Performance and Performance Attribution classes. While teaching the risk section of Fundamentals, I was explaining the characteristics of Value at Risk (VaR), and how, when one defines the confidence...
by David Spaulding | Jul 22, 2014 | Investment Performance Guy, News
It is with the deepest of regrets that I inform you of the passing of our very dear friend and colleague, Sandra Hahn Colbert. We just learned that Sandra died yesterday, July 21. Some details regarding the funeral arrangements are below. We have known Sandra for...
by David Spaulding | Jul 20, 2014 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In this weekend’s WSJ there’s an article titled “Risk Is Never a Strict Numbers Game.” Well, you know I had to take a look. It comes from “The Norm Chronicles: Stories of Numbers About Danger and Death,” by Bastland and...
by TSG | Jul 17, 2014 | attribution, Performance Perspectives Newsletter, rate of return
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