Portfolio Performance Evaluation Flashcards
Characteristics of Valid Benchmark
(1) Specified in advance
(2) Appropriate
(3) Measurable
(4) Unambiguous (= clear)
(5) Reflect current manager opinion
(6) Accountable
(7) Investable
type of benchmark
+ Asset-based
+ Liability-based
type of Asset-based benchmark
(1) Absolute return benchmark
(2) Manager Universes
(3) Broad Market Indices
(4) Style Indices
(5) Factor Model Based
(6) Return-based
(7) Custom Security-based
Hedge fund benchmark
(1) Broad-market index
(2) Risk free + Spread (3-6%)
(3) Hedge fund manager universe
real estates benchmark
Real estate indexes
Private Equity benchmark
Use IRR estimate of peers / Public Market Equivalent Methodology
Commodities benchmark
Future-based Commodity Index
Managed Derivatives benchmark
Specific to single investment strategy
Distressed Securities benchmark
May use Markey Index (Barclay Distressed Securities Index)
Performance measure
(1) Sharpe Ratio
(2) Treynor Measure
(3) Information Ratio (IR)
(4) Appraisal Ratio (Treynor-Black)
(5) Sortino Ratio
(6) Upside/Downside Capture Ratios
(7) Drawdown
Performance attribution
determines the key drivers that generated the account’s performance
Performance appraisal
determines whether the performance was affected primarily
+ by investment decisions,
+ by the overall market,
+ or by chance
Return attribution
evaluates the impact of the active portfolio management decisions on the fund’s investment returns
Risk attribution
the parallel of return attribution but analyzes the impact of the portfolio manager’s active investment decisions on portfolio risk.
Micro attribution
+ analyzes at the portfolio manager’s level and
+ seeks to verify that the portfolio manager did:
* what they said they would
* understand the drivers of the portfolio’s return
Macro attribution
+ analyzes investment decisions at the fund sponsor’s level;
+ it’s commonly used with institutional investing
Returns-based attribution
regresses total portfolio returns against major risk factors (risk, size, value) to identify the active bets of the manager and their impact on active returns.
+ Advantages:
* Easy to implement
* Does not require holdings data
+ Disadvantages:
* Least accurate
* can be manipulated
Holdings-based attribution
uses beginning-of-period portfolio holdings to assess the active sector/stock selection bets of the manager and their contribution to active return
+ Advantages: more accurate than returns-based
+ Disadvantages:
* Need data on fund holdings
* Mismatch due to trading effect
Transactions-based attribution
improves upon the holdings-based attribution by including the impact of any trades executed during the evaluation period
+ Advantage: Most accurate method
+ Disadvantage:
* Most time-consuming to implement
* Highest data to requirement
* Highest complexity
allocation effect
measures the value added/subtracted through the decision to overweight/underweight a segment versus the benchmark:
+ BHB model: Ai = (wi – Wi) × Bi
+ Brinson-Fachler model: Ai = (wi – Wi)(Bi – B)
selection effect
measures the value added/subtracted through selecting investments in the portfolio different from those of the benchmark
Si = Wi × (Ri – Bi)
interaction effect
measures the impact on active return of the allocation and selection effects acting together
Ii = (wi – Wi) × (Ri – Bi)