A number of well-known practitioners such as Warren Buffett and Jeremy Siegel have long advocated a strategic asset allocation in which investors hold a majority of their assets in equities. However, in this simple straightforward study we find that in order to maximize the well-known Sharpe...

Some active mutual funds are more active than others. Indeed, research has found that many so-called active funds are not nearly as active as they appear as they hold a portfolio that can be quite similar to their benchmark index. Furthermore it has generally been found that funds who are...

This paper represents the first attempt to empirically examine the relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) educational background and firm financial performance. Using a relatively broad sample of 390 US firms, we find no significant evidence that the type or selectivity of the...

Closet indexing is the practice of staying close to the benchmark index while still claiming to be an active mutual fund manager and charging active-management fees. Recent work shows that active mutual fund managers are more likely to closet index during down markets. Around the time of the...