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