by Krisan Marotta | Nov 7, 2014 | Reporting
The ending values on a Performance report and a Portfolio Holdings report for the same client don’t match. Now what? 1) Check the obvious. Are you running the reports on the same ending date? Are you using the same portfolio or group? Are you running on the...
by Krisan Marotta | Sep 12, 2014 | Reporting
Q “I re-ran a client’s second quarter performance report and the numbers have changed. We use the Comparative Performance Review. This has happened before. How could the numbers be different when we re-run a performance report?” A. The short...
by Krisan Marotta | May 19, 2014 | Most Popular, Performance
PortfolioCenter provides two main performance calculations: Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWR). What’s the difference? IRR measures the overall growth of the portfolio. If your goal is to reach a $1 million by age 65, IRR...
by Krisan Marotta | May 9, 2014 | Performance
How can there be a positive Dollar Gain (DG) and a negative Time Weighted Return (TWR)? Or vice versa? These “strange but true” returns occur more frequently than you might expect. First, remember that TWR measures the growth of the average dollar in a...
by Krisan Marotta | Feb 19, 2014 | Performance
The Performance Inception date is the date from which PortfolioCenter begins measuring performance for a particular account. If you want accurate performance returns, this date must be correct. Fortunately, you can let PortfolioCenter set this date automatically....
