A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo
How should a performance modeler address the following?
Is the return of a short, considered itself as a financial instrument or derivative investment vehicle, the return of its underlying (i.e., the shorted holding), implying that when the short loses money that “the return of the short” itself is positive? That is, if a short lost money on a day, is it best to report that the short itself had a positive return for that day?
A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo
Related news
A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo
If you use “Purchases in the Basis Dietz”, how do you approach the following scenario?The cash in a portfolio starts the day with a small gain and then the portfolio uses all of the starting cash and half of that small cash gain (“sells cash”) to purchase a non-cash instrument. Thus, nothing ever goes short.…
A bi-weekly challenge from Andre Mirabelli & Opturo
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.
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...
Read more