Stock picking often is carried out with stock screens that reduce the set of eligible stocks. Such screens usually are assessed through the level and volatility of the resultant returns, mostly with associated statistics such as information ratio or Sharpe ratio. This evaluation, however, often...

We survey articles on hedge funds' performance persistence and fundamental factors from the mid-1990s to the present. For performance persistence, we present some pioneering studies that contradict previous findings that hedge funds' performance is a short term matter. We discuss recent...

UCITS investment funds represent an important investment opportunity for retail, as well for institutional investors in the European Union. The aim of this paper is to analyse the performance of the UCITS investment funds in Croatia and to detect relatively homogeneous groups among the UCITS...

Fixed-income managers need specialized attribution models that for example incorporate all the effects of yield-curve movements. The route is the factor based approach, where the performance of all securities is first decomposed using systematic factors and then aggregated. We consider a...

This paper examines the performance of investment strategies involving leveraged and inverse leveraged ETF pairs. As in Jiang and Peterburgsky's (2017) simulation analysis, the empirical analysis in this paper indicates that simple portfolios of bull/bear short positions constructed to...

Warren Buffett (1984) presents a group of investors with long-term performance records far superior than the market. Applying an array of prominent performance evaluation models, capturing relative, absolute, density based, and utility-based measures, does little to refute the conclusions of...

This study aims to empirically analyze the asset allocation capabilities of Outsourced Chief Investment Officers (OCIOs) in Korea. The empirical analysis used data from 35 funds that were evaluated by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance from 2012 to 2020. The results of the analysis are...