by David Spaulding | Nov 20, 2018 | ETF, benchmarks, Exchange Traded Fund, GIPS, Investment Performance Guy, market index
ETFs as benchmarks: is it time? A topic that continues to gain attention is the massive increases that have occurred with market indexes. We regularly hear stories of firms being required to pay multiples of what they had been for some of the major ones. Despite the...
by David Spaulding | Nov 6, 2018 | Spaulding Verification Services, GIPS, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy
At the end a recent GIPS® 2020 webinar, I included a slide like the one above. It was, in a sense, a “word from your sponsor.” This is the time of year when many firms begin to think about their next year’s verification. Before you get too far down that path,...
by TSG | Oct 15, 2018 | #GIPS2020, 2020 GIPS Standards, GIPS, GIPS 2020, Performance Perspectives Newsletter
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by David Spaulding | Oct 9, 2018 | GIPS composite presentation, GIPS, GIPS 2020, GIPS compliance, GIPS verification, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy
You’ve probably seen this bumper sticker that reads something like “Don’t follow me, I’m lost too.” Well, an analogous idea arises in school, when you look at what a neighboring student answered to an exam question, thinking that they...
by David Spaulding | Jul 19, 2018 | Standard Deviation, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy, Variability
One thing that is often overlooked is that William F. Sharpe, PhD, in his paper that introduced the now eponymously named “Sharpe ratio,” referred to his measure as “reward to variability.” He contrasted this with Jack Treynor’s earlier...
by David Spaulding | May 10, 2018 | GIPS 20/20, #GIPS2020, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy
Shouldn’t GIPS® 20/20 have its own logo? That thought occurred to us a couple of months back. In fact, I sent a note to the CFA Institute suggesting it. However, I suspect they’re probably a tad too busy to be worrying about a logo. And so, we decided to...