Travelling ahead 10 years would be a great help those trying to map out the future of fixed income attribution.

Storyteller Geoff Chasseur tells the tale of PM hero, Gary Hilldrup. Sure his maths ability would keep him on the path to performance measurement enlightenment, a sign from GIPS showed Hilldrup a true vocation — inspiring more devotion than his original calling

The Ford car company rose to fame and success with the advent of the Model T. This hugely popular car revolutionised a generation not because it was technologically advanced but, rather, because it was reliable and reduced costs for the owner. According to Andrew Colin, founder of Flametree Research, the market for software analytics is in the pre-Model T days

The benefits of GIPS, says Brian Chapman of KPMG, are now attracting the attention of a world-wide audience. From product control to consistent performance reporting to the creation of databases — the advantage of being compliant should be appealing to asset managers

The performance measurement field has grown in the last decade and, as a result, there’s a need for some new talent. Trouble is, the talent can be hard to find. Introducing our new career development series, James Sowden examines some of the hurdles facing investment firms and what they will need to overcome to put people in seats

Some say there is a link between music and math. Anne Harrison agrees with this statement. As the head of performance at Aegon Asset Management, Harrison has spent her life working with numbers but in her spare time it is music that gets all her attention

In this first part of a two-part series, Jim Trotter of Northern Trust examines the relationship between the performance measurer and the fund manager. According to the long-time performance analyst, this relationship has developed over time as investment trends and performance capabilities have evolved from a high level quarterly cycle to a detailed, stock level daily infrastructure

Plenty of progress has been made in the field of fixed income attribution but further practical inroads are yet to be mapped, explains Andrew Kophamel of State Street Investment Analytics in Sydney

It is still three years off, but the GIPS executive committee have already begun the lengthy review process of the current standards and started work on the 2010 version. Chairman of the GIPS executive committee, Dr Stefan Illmer of Credit Suisse explains the process.