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Performance Measurement And Attribution. The Future. Evaluate Skill NOT Style. Back to Basics. Skill??. Luck??. Old Approaches Don’t Work. Skill??. = Style??. Luck??. If you don’t know the problem, you can’t fix it. Performance Analysis 1980’s Slicer & Dicer. Sector Size
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Performance Measurement And Attribution The Future Evaluate Skill NOT Style
Back to Basics Skill?? Luck??
Old Approaches Don’t Work Skill?? = Style?? Luck?? If you don’t know the problem, you can’t fix it.
Performance Analysis 1980’s Slicer & Dicer Sector Size Yield P/E Off-the-shelf Benchmark Results Portfolio
STYLE Skill Luck Bridge the Gap Is Your Manager Lucky or Skillful?
Style Matters
Past IS Prologue:Information Ratios and Sortino Omegas PERSIST * MPT, PMPT, APT, RBSA… Market and Style effects dominate Style-&-market-adjusted success/failure persists Signal / Noise Getting WHY’s * Gruber(96), Stewart(98), Rudd & Kahn(99,00,01), Ibbotson(01)
Styles go in & out of favor Skill persists The difference between Style and Skill
The Cost Of Confusion
Sources of Return Style Analysis Returns or Holdings Value Growth Core Attribution Against Custom Style Blend
Today’s Craft Value Growth Core Skill Custom Benchmark Portfolio Style
Details • Sector Allocation & Stock Selection • Attribution
Sector Allocation Fund Allocation Custom Style Benchmark
Sector Allocation & Stock Selection Custom Style Benchmark Fund Returns Style Opportunities
Style Matters
Trends • Style Allocation • Sector Allocation • Cumulative Performance • Cum Sources of Value Added – Persistence • Relative Performance
Style Allocation History $ Mid Growth Mid Core Mid Value Large Growth Large Core Large Value
Sector Allocation $ Finance Technology Health Non-Durables
Cumulative Growth Fund Style Market Ranks
The Best Picture Consistent Sources of Value Added
Sources of Value Added -- Persistence Stock Selection Sector Allocation Activity
Sources of Value Added -- Persistence Stock Selection Sector Allocation Activity
Benefits • Identify Skillful Investment Managers • Risk Control (MDAs) • Global • Hedge Funds
Talent Contest Made Easy Winners of the Style-adjusted Performance Race Reasons for Win Confirm People, Process, Philosophy
Equity Diversification • Sector: Technology, Consumer, Health Care • Characteristics: Capitalization, P/E, yield, R-squared
Equity Diversification • Sector: Technology, Consumer, Health Care • Characteristics: Capitalization, P/E, yield • Style
Extensions • Global • Hedge Funds
Hedge Funds • Leverage • Direction Amount long & amount short • Style
The Past Off-the-shelf Benchmark Results Portfolio
The Future Value Growth Core Skill Custom Benchmark Portfolio Style
Style Indexes No standardization in sight, but…
Style Effects(Holdings or Returns-Based) Core Growth Value
Some Suggested Criteria • Mutually Exclusive: Multicollinearity/ Holdings Reports • Exhaustive (Includes everything): Fit/ Holdings Reports • Regular Rebalancing: Adjust to Change • Core: Value-Growth Compromise
Capitalization Large : Top 65% of $s Mid : Next 30% Small : Bottom 5% E/P + y + B/P Value : Top 40% Core : Middle 20% Growth : Bottom 40% Surz Style Definitions • Rebalanced Quarterly
Research Caution Popularity is not Necessarily Synonymous with Quality
Mobius Research Candidates : Russell, Surz, Pru, Wilshire, Vestek • Fundamental : All win except Wilshire • Tracking error : Surz & Russell • Multicollinearity : Surz • Coverage : Surz & Russell
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The Future • Style matters • Returns-based complements holdings-based Evaluate Style