The Annualization Of Attribution

How does an attribution modeler address the following challenge?If a Fund achieves 50% one year and 0% the next, and its Benchmark achieves 0% the first year and -50% the next, then the active return each year is 50%. Is the annualized active return 50%? Or is the annualized active return the annualized Fund return…

Opturo--Andre Mirabelli, Ph.D.-- Building a robust ex post Performance and Attribution system involves a number of difficult challenges. It requires careful attention to a number of particular considerations and their convoluted interactions in order to consistently provide economically meaningful results, and not formally motivated calculations that are hidden behind familiar sounding names.

What if I invested by first doing an allocation among countries and then an allocation among sectors within countries, could I evaluate my sector allocation using a single-allocation Brinson model?See the paper and Excel example in Opturo's newsroom.