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Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

Industry Insights from Thomson Reuters Institute, a part of Thomson Reuters. Hours billed and revenue in the door are still the metrics by which the majority of law firms measure success. And why not?

As they say, you manage what you measure. Accordingly, an entire industry has developed around performance measurement and performance management. Popular tools include the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Let’s say a client asks you, “What was the best-performing fund last year?” Or perhaps they want to know, “What was the performance of the S&P 500 last year?” Processing Content Before answering, it ...

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, and colleagues recently argued that interventions (emphasis added) to improve the quality of healthcare should meet the same standards of evidence that are applied to the ...