How to Select Investment Managers & Evaluate Performance: A Guide for Pension Funds, Endowments, Foundations, and Trusts

How To Select Investment Managers & Evaluate Performance

The key to successful investment management is to select investment professionals who can best meet clients' investment goals, objectives, and needs.

How to Select Investment Managers & Evaluate Performance provides those who are responsible for the investment performance of their institution's funds—including pension plan trustees, endowment fund board members, and investment committee board members—with the essential knowledge and skill set required to properly select investment managers and to evaluate their performance in a systematic manner.

This book describes cutting-edge techniques used to evaluate the performance of investment funds and their managers and provides valuable insight into the roles and responsibilities—in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002—of those charged with this oversight. In a clear and understandable fashion, the authors offer key advice on such topics as establishing investment policy statements, alternative investments, investment approaches and styles, return-risk measurements, how overall portfolio performance is evaluated, how to conduct a search for investment managers, and much more.