by admin | Aug 31, 2009 | attribution
A client who is considering a switch in attribution vendors asked me what the best system is. Well, that all depends, doesn’t it? Attribution software is a bit unique because it requires the firm to give a lot of thought as to how they wish to derive...
by admin | Aug 30, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
This morning, while driving to the store, I happened to catch Rev.DeForest “Buster” Soaries preaching on the radio. Buster is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ. I know Buster and have heard him preach, both in person and...
by admin | Aug 29, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
A few years back someone began a website, investment-performance.com, to provide a variety of services, including a way to get questions answered. They asked me, along with a few others, to serve as moderators. And periodically I’d offer comments.Well, earlier...
by admin | Aug 28, 2009 | GIPS, verification
Our GIPS(R) verification business has done extremely well this year: it’s become the fastest growing segment of our firm’s offerings. And when we replace a verifier we often find that the firm had previously had, in addition to a firm-wide verification,...
by admin | Aug 27, 2009 | words
Please allow me to digress from the subject of performance measurement for a moment.As a writer, I love words. I like to learn new words and have a better grasp of how words should be used. It’s interesting, I think, how many words have, through years of misuse,...