by guest blogger – David Spaulding, President of The Spaulding Group. Today’s post will discuss disclosing compliance. Disclosing compliance. The claim of compliance statement has been changed (see ¶

by guest blogger – David Spaulding, President of The Spaulding Group. Firms that claim compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) will soon be obligated to comply with the new

After a brief lull during the credit crisis performance (or incentive) fees are again becoming increasingly high profile. An excellent time therefore to pose two questions: Are they a good thing? An

I have just completed a 13 day 30,000 mile round trip of the world from London via Boston, New York City, LA, Sydney, Johannesburg, Cape Town and finally back to London. Far from being exhausting it w

What is the definition of insanity? Repeatedly doing the same thing but expecting different results – so goes one of the best lines of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. I loved the fir

UCITS IV was passed into law on 1st July and will take effect in July 2011. UCITS aims to provide fund managers with the ability to market a single fund in all the countries of the EU whilst only regi

The recent rise in house prices must be a false dawn and is likely to be followed by another crash. From 1999 to 2007 a massive supply of credit combined with relatively low rates and a limited supply

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Back in mid 2007, when the credit crisis first started to unleash its trail of wreckage, everyone was using risk models that focused on market risks. All these models assumed Liquidity was always avai

The financial crisis has provoked a lot of naval gazing and blame in different proportions. One of the factors that got a lot of blame was “Value at Risk” or “VaR” for short. This statistical measure

What better way to protect the investor than for them to know that pricing and valuations are supplied by a third party, independent company?