Links
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Service Providers
- Mellon Analytical Solutions - Provider of performance measurement, analytics, and attribution services to fund sponsors, investment managers, and consultants.
- Standard & Poor - Mutual fund information and analysis
- The Spaulding Group - Provider of various products and services related to investment performance as well as publisher of the 'Journal of Performance Measurement' . David Spaulding is also writing an interesting blog about performance measurement and related issues.
- BI-SAM Technologies - Performance measurement, analysis and reporting software
- Wilmott - Resources for quantitative finance: books, articles, magazines, forums, job postings and more.
- Mathworks - The company behind MATLAB, a powerful calculation engine with lots of high-level functions and resources available for free.
- MATLAB Econometrics Toolbox - MATLAB code by James P. LeSage.
- Contingency Analysis - Family of websites maintained by Glyn Holton about trading, risk management and financial engineering; extensive glossary.
- Yield Book - Citigroup's fixed income analytics
- Performa - UK-based provider of software solutions for achieving compliance with national and international performance presentation standards.
- Mcube Investment Technologies - decision support products for institutional investment management.
- StatPro - Portfolio analytics software solutions.
- PriBIL - Private Banking Index Ltd., development and promotion of a series of indices tailored to the needs of the private banking world.
- Meridian - UK-based solutions provider. The main business areas are the "Meridian Investment Performance Survey" (MIPS), the software "Investment Reporting and Accountancy System" (IRAS) and "Meridian Investment Consulting".
- swissQuant AG: Independent provider of cutting-edge quantitative decision tools, systematic trading signals and comprehensive risk management for financial institutions, multi-national corporations, hedge funds and the energy sector.
- Orfival: Belgian software company offering innovative performance and risk analytics to fund management clients. The flagship product includes ALM, reporting and accounting functionality.
- Financial Navigator: Software solutions focusing on the reporting needs of ultra high-net-worth individuals and family offices.
Organizations
- SEC - Security Exchange Commission. The primary mission of the SEC is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. The Investor Information section on their website contains a lot of materials for non-professionals.
- CFA Institute (previously "AIMR") - a US-based international organization of investment professionals issuing and promoting global performance presentation standards.
- IMCA - 'Investment Management Consultants Association', principal professional association of the investment consulting industry. Publisher of the 'Journal of Investment Consulting', issuer of performance reporting and other standards, provider of free educational materials.
- IOSCO - International Organisation of Securities Commissions
- Risk Standards Working Group - issues risk standards for institutional investors
- KGAST - Performance data of institutional funds in Switzerland
- EDHEC-Risk Asset Management Research - A platform mostly about alternative invesments run by the EDHEC Business School Lille-Nice.
Research
- IDEAS - bibliographic database dedicated to economics
- SSRN - Social Science Research Network, lots of articles
- Journal of Performance Measurement - quarterly publication on applied as well as conceptual performance measurement and related topics
- The History of Economic Though Website - lots of original texts in PDF format
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty - the analysis of investment performance is very much an application of economic decision theory under uncertainty
- GloriaMundi - All about Value-At-Risk
- Gummy Stuff - Various essays from the perspective of a retired math teacher who learnt about investing when financing his early retirement: "...most edible - best viewed from a sitting position".
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home & Professional Page - "My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know...."
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