Simple Performance Fee Calculation for Investment Funds

Simple Performance Fee Calculation ModelI love fundamental theories in positive sciences like the Darwinian Evolution Theory, Game Theory, or Fourier’s Frequency Transformation. Once you have a solid understanding of such fundamental concepts, you can explain so many things, and solve so many different problems in real life. In that sense, they are very economical; you don’t need to memorize lots of boring details of some chaotic practices and applications that might cost anyone many years of mental endurance and obedience in professional life.

The simple performance fee calculation method which I want to introduce in this article is for me such a fundamental theory in a small scale. I’ve started with this relatively abstract backbone model and extended it easily to cover real life cases, like performance calculation with individual high water marks (HWM) for each shareholder. Because a backbone model must be simple and understandable, I will keep it simple in this article; at least simple enough for scientific minds (!). Continue reading

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Fee and Commission Types in the Mutual Fund Business

After having worked more than two years in the Fund Services business as a senior consultant, I still confuse sometimes the meaning and scope of some terms used in the industry. The confusing factor is not necessarily the inherent complexity of the business, but the inconsistent use of some terms in the finance community. Nevertheless, I will try to summarize here what I learned so far.

Before coming back to fees and commissions, let’s have a short introduction to the industry structure in order to understand who is paying to whom for what services.

Overview to fund industry structure

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Predictive Modelling with Linear Regression – 2

In this article, I will show the estimation model which was introduced in the previous related article in action with matlab and Simulink; estimating the time record of an athlete running 100-meters against the wind, with a weight attached to his belt.  What can show something in action better than a video presentation? So let’s start with a short screencast.

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Quick Start Reference for MATLAB and R

This quick start reference originates from the short matlab tutorial that I had compiled for my students at the University of Applied Sciences HSZ-T in 2004 for my lecture Data Warehouse and Data Mining. It was a quick introduction to matlab which effectively fulfilled its purpose because my students were in fact able to implement simple estimation and optimization models within a couple of days. I extended this short tutorial then with comparable R commands to make it useful to a broader audience. Continue reading

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