GIPS_Pratice Problem_Q36

Why option A is incorrect?

"Advertisements that state a claim of compliance and present performance must also present one of the following sets of total returns:

  1. one-, three-, and five-year annualized composite returns through the most recent period;
  2. period-to-date composite returns in addition to one-, three-, and five-year annualized composite returns through the same period of time as presented in the corresponding compliant presentation; or
  3. period-to-date composite returns in addition to five years of annual composite returns calculated through the same period of time as presented in the corresponding compliant presentation."

Shouldn’t set a of total return presentation applies?

anybody?

I’m not sure what the confusion is. It’s in the text. Ads have to show either:

  • period to date + 1/3/5 year annualized

or

  • period to date + 5 years annual

The option A misses the period to date…

It doesn’t need period to date returns though, the OP has posted the requirements and the advert satisfies a)

hence, there’s nothing wrong with the advert, it meets the guidelines.