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 | Mar 8, 2017 | Global Investment Performance Standards, dispersion, GIPS, Investment Performance Guy, Standard Deviation
We just published our monthly newsletter (a few days late, but better-late-than-never, right?). And already we’ve gotten comments in on two things: #1 is our puzzle, but a close #2 is my commentary on annualized standard deviation. And, as I point out, the...
by David Spaulding | Feb 14, 2017 | dispersion, GIPS, Global Investment Performance Standards, Investment Performance Guy, Standard Deviation
The GIPS(R) standards require compliant firms to include a measure of dispersion for each year in which they have six or more accounts present for the full 12 months. But, which return should they use, gross-of-fee or net-of-fee? What about for the 36-month, ex...
by David Spaulding | Sep 2, 2016 | Investment Performance Guy, Standard Deviation
Linking monthly standard deviation has its root within the AIMR-PPS One advantage to being a bit older than most folks in performance measurement is that I have been exposed to a lot of ideas, and quite a bit of history. This includes the predecessor standard to...
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 | Aug 20, 2012 | CFA exams, CIPM, CIPM expert, CIPM Principles, composite dispersion, external dispersion, internal dispersion, Standard Deviation, statistics, TI BA II Plus, tracking error
Last week I taught our CIPM prep classes for the Principles and Expert Levels, and the commonly asked question about the fastest way to do standard deviation came up.I will take this opportunity to refer to an old blog post (found here) that covered how to this using...
