We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …) ownership improves some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring …

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state ownership. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

This paper analyzes persistence in US equity mutual fund performance over the period 2001-2011 for both net and gross … approach, which assesses the performance of investing by following recommendations based on past performance. Results show the …-sectional significance of recursive portfolios. In general, our results do not support evidence of persistence in mutual fund performance …

This paper analyses the relationship between active management and performance in US equity mutual funds over the … period 2001-2011 for both gross and net returns. Mutual funds achieve nonzero abnormal performance through strategies that …-varying parameters, idiosyncratic risk and turnover. The results show a negative aggregate performance close to zero. Performance is …

. This paper contributes to the extant literature by comparing the performance of Islamic and conventional funds during …’ah-compliant investments are in home territory. Our results show that the relative performance of Islamic and conventional funds must be … countries, the result is the opposite. This evidence holds for both crisis and recovery periods. In addition, the performance …

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and …, private ownership tends to be associated with superior performance in terms of some indicators but not others, and dispersed … ownership results in better or equal performance than more concentrated forms of ownership. …