The Poseidon Effect

The Poseidon Effect

During our Fundamentals of Investment Performance class, when we get to the discussion of time- versus money-weighting, a question arises as to why firms continue to exclusively employ time-weighting, when it’s quite clear that there’s a major role for...

MWRR @ subportfolio level

A brokerage client just mentioned that one of their reps wants money-weighted returns at the subportfolio level. And I was asked to contrast the advantages and disadvantages of time- versus money-weighting. Well, in one respect he came to the wrong guy, because there...

Oops!

A few days ago I announced the arrival of the June newsletter, and a couple attentive readers immediately made me aware of a typo. In the “logic” section on page 3 you’ll find “And the inverse holds: when the manager does control the cash...

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