Overview of the Global Investment Performance Standards

Free CFA Level III: Portfolio Management lesson in Performance Measurement. 26 min read, ~3,923 words.

GIPS applies at the firm level, partial compliance is not permitted. Composites group all actual, fee-paying, discretionary portfolios managed to the same strategy. Terminated portfolios must remain in the historical composite record, removing them creates survivorship bias. Time-weighted return is required for traditional mandates (it removes client-driven cash-flow distortion); IRR...

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