Performance Attribution: History and Progress

Performance Attribution: History and Progress
ISBN-10
1944960902
ISBN-13
9781944960902
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
64
Language
English
Published
2019-12-23
Publisher
CFA Institute Research Foundation
Author
Carl R. Bacon

Description

The objective of performance attribution is to explain portfolio performance relative to a benchmark, identify the sources of excess return, and relate those sources to active decisions by the portfolio manager. This review charts the development of attribution from its beginning with Fama decomposition in the 1970s, through its foundations in the 1980s, into its issues of multiperiod and multicurrency attribution in the 1990s, and ending on its more detailed models for fixed-income and risk-adjusted attribution in recent years. Types of attribution (including returns based, holdings based, and transaction based) are also discussed as is money-weighted attribution and developments associated with notional funds.

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