What a great question!

In today’s webinar on GIPS 2010 one of the attendees (participants?) asked if for the new GIPS(R) 2010 (Global Investment Performance Standards) requirement to report 3-year annualized standard deviation, if an asset weighted version of standard deviation would...
Tulipomania redux?

Tulipomania redux?

In our Fundamentals of Performance Measurement course I often mention the ailment known as “rootaphobia,” or the “fear of roots” (as in square roots; the root symbol). I later mention “tulipomania.” And while the former is...
Reputational risk

Reputational risk

I just posted a dozen tips to choose a verifier and mentioned a couple times the issue of “reputational risk.”If you don’t think avoiding this risk is important, I have two words for you: Tiger Woods.The photo’s announcement of Tiger’s...

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