A Portfolio Performance Measurement Technique That Decomposes the Return of a Manager's

question 5

Multiple Choice

A portfolio performance measurement technique that decomposes the return of a manager's holdings to a predetermined benchmark's returns and separates the difference into an allocation and selection is called

• A) immunization analysis.
• B) performance attribution analysis.
• C) tactical rankings.
• D) convexity utilization.
• E) duration matching attrition.

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