Publishing RAD Zone1 Performance Measurement and Evaluation Assessing the Quality of Asian Stock Market Indices EDHEC Business School This study assesses the properties of a range of popular Asian equity indices. More Sell-Side Analysts and Gender: A Comparison of Performance, Behavior, and Career Outcomes Financial Analysts Journal Recommendations of female analysts, compared with those of their male counterparts, produce similar abnormal returns but with lower idiosyncratic risks. More Choose Your Betas: Benchmarking Alternative Equity Index Strategies CFA Digest The authors propose three diversification-based optimization schemes for stock weighting and show them to be superior to simpler, characteristics-based rules that are favored by many index providers. More The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses Financial Analysts Journal Under plausible conditions, a person saving for retirement who chooses low-cost investments could have a standard of living throughout retirement more than 20% higher than that of a comparable investor in high-cost investments. More Fixed-Income Portfolio Benchmarks: Time for a Re-evaluation? Webcast Mike Zelouf, CFA, explains why market-cap-weighted bond indices may not be good benchmarks and why alternative benchmarks do not solve all problems. More Assessing the Quality of Asian Stock Market Indices Sell-Side Analysts and Gender: A Comparison of Performance, Behavior, and Career Outcomes Choose Your Betas: Benchmarking Alternative Equity Index Strategies The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses Fixed-Income Portfolio Benchmarks: Time for a Re-evaluation? From the Blog How Does Gender Affect the Performance and Career Outcomes of Sell-Side Analysts? (Podcast) Pat Light 13 May 2013 Rodney N. Sullivan, CFA, discusses his recent research on the effects of gender in the sell-side analyst field. Read more Top Five Articles from April: Bloomberg’s Twitter List, Currency Wars, and Bitcoin Jennifer Curry 1 May 2013 Top posts from last month included a network analysis of Bloomberg's Twitter a-list, dire warnings about the Fed's policies from James G. Rickards, and discussions about alternatives to fiat money. Read more How to Choose a Good Hedge Fund for Your Portfolio: Mark Anson’s Secret Formula Jason Voss, CFA 23 April 2013 The chief investment officer at the Bass Family Office says that the expected quality of a hedge fund manager is a function of additional return, minimal volatility, a bias toward positive returns, and less big blow ups. Read more View all Popular and Trending in Performance Measurement and Evaluation Most Viewed Investment Management Fee Structures The Sharpe Ratio and the Information Ratio Private Equity Performance and Liquidity Risk Top Rated Optimized Geometric Attribution Private Equity Performance and Liquidity Risk Time Matters in Performance Analysis Looking for Something Specific? Search our library for more on performance measurement and evaluation Subscribe to performance measurement and evaluation content Access our CFA Institute content specialists Tweets from @CFAinstitute/performance-measurement Continuing Education Progress CFA Members, log in to record credits towards your continuing education. Annual recommended minimums:20 CE, including 2 SER. Manage Your CE Credits CIPM CertificateThe industry’s only designation for investment performance evaluation and presentation.Learn more Performance NewsletterSign up for a quarterly newsletter on issues facing the investment performance measurement field.Learn more Publishing RAD Zone2 Publishing RAD Zone3