KPI of the Day – Investment Performance: % Placement ratio
Definition
Measures the percentage of municipal bonds that were sold during a week. Only issues greater or equal to $1 million are used in the calculation.
Top six reasons to start using key performance indicators
Measurement is an activity which emerged thousands of years ago, driven by the human curiosity to know more about the environment and to understand how the world works. In time, our world has evolved to become more and more complex, pressuring us to constantly refine our measurement tools and techniques.
Today, we see organizations as ecosystems and we act accordingly to our desire to know more and to better understand this environment. Nowadays, challenges are not about accessing information, as most companies are managing large volumes of data. The challenge is to decide what data is the most important for decision making? In this context, key performance indicators (KPIs) are very useful tools to provide:
KPI of the Day – Investment: # Treynor ratio
Definition
Measures a portfolio’s return earned in excess of what would be earned on a risk-free investment.
KPI of the Day – Investment: # Kestner ratio or K-ratio
Definition
Measures the performance of a stock portfolio relative to its risk.
Aborigines’ life equality – Closing the gap for 11 years
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are continuously suffering from poor health conditions, which have become an ever-present challenge for the Australian government.
