A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo

How should a performance modeler address the following?
For an illiquid, how do you assign/interpolate returns for each day in a year in a manner that does not misrepresent its daily volatility, when one only knows the returns for each of the four quarters in the year?

A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo

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A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo

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The Annualization Of Attribution

For Carl Bacon's Advanced Portfolio Attribution Analysis--Andre Mirabelli, Ph.D.--Annualization is necessary whenever one needs a temporally intensive property that can be used to compare the values of a temporally extensive property describing periods of different duration...
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