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Evaluating Investment Performance

2004
AbstractPension plan sponsors, administrators, managers, trustees, and others must periodically evaluate the investment performance of the fund’s asset pool. Performance evaluation has several components: the alternative computations used in measuring returns, the correct ways to measure and adjust for risk, how benchmarks should be chosen or ...
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The Performance of Defensive Investments

The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2001
Defensive investments are defined here as those asset classes that have attracted funds during periods of stock market weakness. Some of these asset classes such as cash, gold, or government bonds benefit most when passive investments take a flight-to-quality.
Carl Peters, Patrick Egan
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Investing in performance drivers

Strategic Direction, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Heavy and unrestrained investment in R&
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THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BRITISH INVESTMENT TRUST INDUSTRY

The Journal of Finance, 1978
PREVIOUS STUDIES OF mutual fund performance have either been concerned with U.S. funds: Treynor [19], Sharpe [16], Jensen [10], Friend and Blume [8]; or been limited to a small sample of foreign funds: McDonald [13]. This paper extends these previous studies by considering a large sample of foreign closed-end mutual funds and by examining two other ...
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Measuring Investment Performance

Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries, 1973
SynopsisThe intention of the paper is to describe the benefits of measuring investment performance and to give methods of so doing.Section 1 gives the background to the subject; it points to the use which an objective investment performance measurement has for both the investment manager and the investor.Section 2 describes the methods of measuring ...
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Investment Performance Evaluation

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2010
This article provides a review of the rapidly developing literature on investment performance evaluation. The goals are to summarize the significant forces and contributions that have brought this field of research to its current state of knowledge and to suggest directions for future research.
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LP Investment Performance

2010
In this chapter, I test LP performance hypotheses. The chapter is organized in two parts. In part one, section 6.1, I first present average returns from PE fund investments by LP type, location, time period and fund type (section 6.1.1). I then probe hypotheses regarding the performance of US (section 6.1.2), as well as global LPs (6.1.3).
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Styles of Performance Investing

Financial Analysts Journal, 1969
(1969). Styles of Performance Investing. Financial Analysts Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 17-19.
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