by David Spaulding | Mar 17, 2017 | advisory fee, GIPS, gross of fees, Investment Performance Guy, net of fees, net-of-fees return, performance measurement
Perhaps the problem I’ll touch on is such that firms will avoid reporting gross- and net-of-fee returns. Hopefully not. A new GIPS(R) (Global Investment Performance Standards) verification client reached out with a problem. One of their clients subtracted their...
by David Spaulding | Mar 15, 2017 | GIPS, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy
Chances are that if you claim compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS(R), your GIPS presentations are running out of room. But many GIPS compliant firms like to limit their composite presentations to one or two pages. Over the years, new...
by David Spaulding | Mar 8, 2017 | Global Investment Performance Standards, dispersion, GIPS, Investment Performance Guy, Standard Deviation
We just published our monthly newsletter (a few days late, but better-late-than-never, right?). And already we’ve gotten comments in on two things: #1 is our puzzle, but a close #2 is my commentary on annualized standard deviation. And, as I point out, the...
by David Spaulding | Mar 1, 2017 | Software Certification, Investment Performance Guy
TSG has been conducting software reviews for over two decades. Historically, we offered this service whenever anyone happened to ask “would you mind taking a look at our system?” For example, the late Damien Laker asked me to look at his system about 20...