CFA CFA Level 2 Information Coefficient Question LOS 54.c

Information Coefficient Question LOS 54.c

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        You got it bud. It is ridiculous lol. But I’m pretty sure you got it. But remember this,  if a manager has high ex ante ic and low ex post then he/she isn’t doing very well. No one gives money to someone solely based off their prediction of subjectively forecasting the correlation of his/her expected active return with the forecasted expected actual active return. For example, I predict I’ll generate active returns of 2% but I think I’ll be wrong by .25%.   Essentially forecasting my own error margin.

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          Exactly, your confusion is mutual ha ha. Ex-ante IC is the correlation between their expected return and expected actual realized return (confusing I know). But when you said “How do we have realized active returns if this is measure before the returns happen?”, the answer is we do not have realized retuns before the returns happen, its impossible. It is the EXPECTED actual realized return. Naturally managers will assign themselves high ex-ante IC’s because they think their gods and can predict their error margins, which will be small.. The ex-post IC, correlation between expected returns and actual returns is more of a judge of performance than the ex-ante.

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            Such an absurd thing, but I think I follow. So we are essentially saying that our R_A_i (expected realized active returns) is our expected return and we are getting this formally through some pricing model such as CAPM, and then our Mu_i is our own subjective forecast? Then we are measuring the correlation between our own subjectively forecasted expected return and our expected return from a formal model? Is this right? It seems if this isn’t correct, then we would just be subjectively forecasting both expected returns and expected realized returns, and we would just assign ourselves an IC coefficient of 1 for perfect correlation lol..

            I agree w/ your last statement, the metric seems absurd, but an ex-post IC would have some validity.

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              Got it. Very odd, but I got it. Thank you, sir!

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