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Market Insights - 4 min
TWR vs IRR: Choosing the Right Measure for Portfolio Performance
In investment management, accurately measuring performance is essential to making informed financial decisions. Two widely recognized metrics for gauging portfolio growth are the Time-Weighted Return (“TWR”) and the Internal Rate of Return (“IRR”). Both offer unique insights, helping wealth management professionals like The Family Office provide clients with accurate reporting that clearly reflects their portfolio performance.
Nov 20, 2024
Retirement Planning - 4 min
The Impact of Inflation on Pension Returns
When you leave employment, you can no longer rely on your salary to help meet your monthly expenses and fund your goals. Ensuring your retirement savings are protected from threats, such as inflation, is critical to securing your future.In this article, we’ll cover what you need to know about inflation and your retirement portfolio, and how you can ensure you are not caught off guard.
Jan 2, 2024
Market Insights - 4 min
David Darst’s 2023 Investment Thoughts
David Darst, Senior Analyst and Investment Strategist at The Family Office, shared some investment insights on key issues that influence portfolio composition, asset allocation, and investment strategy.
Feb 8, 2023
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Market Insights - 4 min
TWR vs IRR: Choosing the Right Measure for Portfolio Performance
In investment management, accurately measuring performance is essential to making informed financial decisions. Two widely recognized metrics for gauging portfolio growth are the Time-Weighted Return (“TWR”) and the Internal Rate of Return (“IRR”). Both offer unique insights, helping wealth management professionals like The Family Office provide clients with accurate reporting that clearly reflects their portfolio performance.
Nov 20, 2024
Market Insights - 4 min
The Road Ahead: Insights from Global Investing Experts
Just as it is wise to hold a diverse portfolio of assets, it is good to sample a range of viewpoints when it comes to investing.At the same time, it’s important not to be overwhelmed. It’s the signal that you are looking for and not the noise. Unfortunately, there is typically far more of the latter than the former.We’ve taken a sample from the Q4 2024 investment outlooks of the world’s leading financial institutions - 12 Wall Street banks and asset managers - and condensed what we believe are the important takeaways for individual investors from their findings.
Nov 6, 2024
Market Insights - 4 min
Permission to Land? November Fed Decision
The last meeting of the Federal Open Markets Committee (“FOMC”) saw the first cut in interest rates in over four years. The decision to lower rates by 50 basis points to their current level of 4.75%-5.0% sent a strong signal to the markets that a new era of easing has definitively begun.The Federal Reserve’s new economic projections and meeting minutes added color to the decision. In addition, further economic data has emerged since September to give the market food for thought as to the likely course of future rates.In this article, we take a look at both, and ask, as usual, what should concern us as individual investors.
Oct 23, 2024