Abstract:a r k , which he founded in 1987. Prior to this, he was principal and New York region manager of investment consulting at Mercer-Meidinger-Hanen, Inc., and a senior manager in Peat Marwick's Investment Consulting Group. Mr. Rom holds M . B.A. degrees j o m Columbia University and the University o f Cape Town in South Africa, as well as an M.S. in computer science and mathematics. KATHLEEN W. FERGUSON has been a principal of Sponsor-Software Systems since 1990. She was previously vice president and manager of c… Show more
“…The rest are consistent with Fishburn's utility measures on the downside but not on the upside. w x It's ironic that Rom and Ferguson's 1994 w x reply to Kaplan and Siegel 1994a effectively relies on the wealth of utility functions available with the Bawa-Fishburn LPM model, although in their work they use only one. In their reply, they note the range of investor behavior that can be matched with the LPM measure.…”
Section: Resolving the Tempest In The Teapot: Academics Versus Practimentioning
confidence: 97%
“…They followed with a spirited defense of the downside risk measure Ž w x. Rom and Ferguson 1994 and an article summarizing the use of downside risk measures for perfor-Ž m ance m easurem ent Rom and Ferguson w x . 1997᎐1998 .…”
Section: Recent Research In the Practitioner Literaturementioning
“…The rest are consistent with Fishburn's utility measures on the downside but not on the upside. w x It's ironic that Rom and Ferguson's 1994 w x reply to Kaplan and Siegel 1994a effectively relies on the wealth of utility functions available with the Bawa-Fishburn LPM model, although in their work they use only one. In their reply, they note the range of investor behavior that can be matched with the LPM measure.…”
Section: Resolving the Tempest In The Teapot: Academics Versus Practimentioning
confidence: 97%
“…They followed with a spirited defense of the downside risk measure Ž w x. Rom and Ferguson 1994 and an article summarizing the use of downside risk measures for perfor-Ž m ance m easurem ent Rom and Ferguson w x . 1997᎐1998 .…”
Section: Recent Research In the Practitioner Literaturementioning
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