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Performance Attribution Volume 2
Analysis and Reporting
- 2nd Edition - March 1, 2025
- Authors: Brian Singer, Russ Wermers, Bernd R. Fischer
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 0 1 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 0 2 - 1
Performance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system… Read more
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Request a sales quotePerformance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), its concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.
- Features new changes to Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
- Expands and updates all chapters, including new sections on the return calculation of derivatives
- Embodies a practical point-of-view and clear division of chapters
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working in the management of diverse types of financial funds
1. Basic Performance Evaluation Models
2. Indices and the Construction of Benchmarks
3. Attribution Analysis for Equity Portfolios According to the Brinson Approach
4. Attribution Analysis for Fixed Income Portfolios
5. Analysis of Multi-Asset Class Portfolios and Hedge Funds
6. Attribution Analysis with Derivatives
7. Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
8. Return Calculation for Derivatives
2. Indices and the Construction of Benchmarks
3. Attribution Analysis for Equity Portfolios According to the Brinson Approach
4. Attribution Analysis for Fixed Income Portfolios
5. Analysis of Multi-Asset Class Portfolios and Hedge Funds
6. Attribution Analysis with Derivatives
7. Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
8. Return Calculation for Derivatives
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128183014
- eBook ISBN: 9780128183021
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Russ Wermers
Russ Wermers is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park, where he won a campus-wide teaching award during 2005. His main research interests include studies of the efficiency of securities markets, as well as the role of institutional investors in setting stock prices. Most notably, his past research has developed new approaches to measuring and attributing the performance of mutual funds, pension funds, and hedge funds, as well as devising winning strategies for investing in these funds. Professor Wermers received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Finance, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USABF
Bernd R. Fischer
In 2009, Bernd Fischer was appointed to the position of Managing Director of IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (a subsidiary of Allianz SE), one of the largest internationally operating providers of operational investment controlling services for institutional investors and asset managers. From 2000 to 2009, he was Global Head of Risk Controlling and Compliance in the central business segment Asset Management of Commerzbank AG and was also responsible for the operational Risk and Performance Controlling division of cominvest GmbH. Prior to this, he worked in the fields of Portfolio Analysis and Risk Controlling in the Asset Management division of Dresdner Bank. From 2000 to 2004, he was a member of the Investment Council of the CFA Institute. Dr. Fischer completed his degrees in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Cologne and was awarded his doctorate at the Florida Atlantic University (USA) in 1995.
Affiliations and expertise
Managing Director of IDS GmbH - Analysis and Reporting Services (a subsidiary of Allianz SE), Frankfurt, Germany