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  • Archived

    Effective: 1 January, 2007 - 30 November, 2013
    Categories: Leverage/Derivatives
    Source: GIPS Executive Committee

    Do the GIPS standards include an example of how to value a portfolio that includes margin borrowing?

    Portfolio consists of $100 long stocks and additional $50 long stocks bought on margin. Valuation of long stocks and the long stocks bought on margin is $170 at the end of the period. Interest paid for margin borrowing is $0.20. Value of the portfolio that belongs to client at the beginning of the period is $100 (= $150 -$50). It becomes $119.80 (= $170 – $50 – $0.20) at the end of the period.

    R = {(119.8 – 100)/ 100}= 19.8%

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