Author
Ahmed Farruk
Ahmed Farruk, CIMA®, is a principal, regional director, and senior consultant at Fiducient Advisors in McLean, Virginia. He coleads the firm’s Associations Business Council and is also a coauthor of the ASAE study, “Association Investment Policies, Practices, and Performance.”
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GovernanceArticleOver 2 years old
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
You've perhaps heard the phrase, "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," typically attributed to famed…
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LearningArticleOver 2 years old
Advice for Dealing With the Roller Coaster Stock Market This Year
On June 16, 1884, the Switchback Railway debuted in New York City’s Coney Island as America’s first roller…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Essentials for Monitoring Your Association’s Investment Portfolio Performance
In 1983, a group of elderly women met in a church basement in Beardstown, Illinois, and decided to…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
How to Use Financial Modeling to Project Future Investment Reserve Balances
It is said that in the summer of 1913 in the small nation of Monaco, a statistically improbable…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Understanding the Visible and Hidden Costs in Your Investment Portfolio
Chances are, you could state-—to the penny—what you paid in occupancy costs last month. Could you do the…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Should Associations Rethink Investments in Foreign Stocks?
Approximately 60 percent of the world’s publicly traded companies are based outside the U.S. Yet many association investment…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Should Associations Invest in Index Funds or Actively Managed Strategies?
In today’s financial world, there are hundreds of market indices, and each tracks the performance of a specific…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Benchmarking Can Help Your Investments Measure Up
What are other associations doing with their investments? Until recently, when our clients asked us this question, we…
