Performance attribution analysis is an attempt to divide a manager's active residual return into an allocation effect

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Performance attribution analysis is an attempt to divide a manager's "active" residual return into an allocation effect and a selection effect. Explain how these two effects are measured and why their sum must equal the total value-added return for the manager. Is this analysis valid if the actual portfolio in question is riskier than the benchmark portfolio to which it is being compared?

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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management

ISBN: 978-0538482387

10th Edition

Authors: Frank K. Reilly, Keith C. Brown

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