Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, Chapter 22 - Index Weighting

Overview

Main description

Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking, which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure to choose the right investing performance benchmarks often leads to bad decisions or inaction and, inevitably, lost profits. In this book you will discover a foundation for benchmark construction and discuss methods for all different asset classes and investment styles.

Table of contents

I: Measuring performance

II: Measuring risk

III: Portfolio return and risk

IV: Performace attribution

V: Benchmarking performance

VI: Determining investment style with effective mix

VII: CFA Institute standards for performance presentation

(There will be 37 chapters)