Putting a number on skill

PUTTING A NUMBER ON SKILL

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Investment Week's Editor-in-Chief speaks to Inalytics chief executive Rick di Mascio about analysing the trading data of fund managers

What do managers do with investors money and are they any good? These are two key questions that exercise advisers minds, but what if you could put a number on a manager's skill? In the world of institutional investing there is a firm that claims it is able to do this and it is now aiming to provide a similar service to the discretionary space. Inalytics collates and analyses the trading data of fund managers, providing a simple hit rate and win/loss number. The hit rate illustrates the percentage of decisions a manager got right and the win/loss looks at whether the gains from the good ...

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