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Metrics deep-dive · Leading vs lagging indicators

Fund performance has been trailing peers for four quarters. Net outflows haven't started yet. What leading indicators of redemptions do you track, and why?

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Net outflows are the lagging confirmation; the decisions behind them were made months earlier, so I'd track the pipeline of decisions in progress.…

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