by admin | Feb 11, 2014 | CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks
Manager selection is an important component in the CIPM Curriculum… in that vein, I suggest candidates read through a writeup/review of Jack Bogle (and really, a new book on him) from the ThinkAdvisor website. The curriculum doesn’t make reference to...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks
This quick video succinctly touches on our role as professionals… https://youtu.be/dYTNq3vRnMQ
by admin | Oct 19, 2013 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, kurtosis, MPT, Omega ratio, performance measurement, post MPT, risk measurement, Sharpe ratio, skewness, Standard Deviation, value at risk
Last night, my hometown team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, was defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship series. The Cardinals will go on to the World Series for a chance at what could be their 20th world championship… while the...
by admin | Oct 16, 2013 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, CIPM Principles, GIPS, GIPS standards, GIPS verification, performance measurement, TSG
(Note: I wrote this post as a guest blogger for the STP Investment Services blog, but it appears that blog is offline and we received a request for the information, so I decided to post the information directly here.) The What, Why and Who of the...
by admin | Oct 15, 2013 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM Principles, Eugene Fama, Fama-French, Kenneth French, performance measurement, returns-based style analysis, style analysis, William Sharpe
OK, I’m just kidding… there is no grand battle here between economists (and Nobel prize winners) Eugene Fama and William Sharpe. That being said, CIPM candidates at the Principles level *are* expected to deal with the following Learning Outcome...
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | CIPM, CIPM Exam Tips & Tricks, CIPM expert, CIPM Principles, economics, Eugene Fama, Fama-French, performance measurement, style analysis, TSG
Congratulations to Professor Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago! The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences just announced that Mr. Fama (along with Robert Schiller and Lars Peter Hansen) has won this year’s Nobel prize in Economics, for their work on...