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respect to risk and operational characteristics such as flows, assets, and Morningstar star ratings. Panel-VAR estimations … reveal that the response of funds’ efficiency to a shock in risk is positive and substantial. Some evidence of reverse …
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plus a 3x6 months Forward Rate Agreement (FRA), and that Libor was a good proxy of the risk free rate required as basic … building block of no-arbitrage pricing theory. Nowadays, in the modern financial world after the credit crunch, some Libors are … carry very important consequences in derivative’s trading and risk management, such as, for example, basis risk …
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We review the main changes in the interbank market after the financial crisis started in August 2007. In particular, we focus on the fixed income market and we analyse the most relevant empirical evidences regarding the divergence of the existing basis between interbank rates with different...
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Although UK resident tax-exempt shareholders lost the right to repayment of tax credits on dividends paid by UK resident companies in July 1997, they could continue to receive tax credit repayments in respect of dividends received from Irish resident companies until December 1998. In July 1997...
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under-diversification resulting from the bias toward employer stocks is highly costly. Holding current portfolio risk …
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In the 1990s, a large majority of funds with front-end loads introduced additional share classes, which allowed investors to pay annual fees and/or back-end charges instead of a front-end load. The transition to a multiple-class structure provides a natural experiment with regard to investor...
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concentrated funds perform better after controlling for risk and style differences using various performance measures. This finding …
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funds with beliefs on risk diversification show better return-risk performance measures, but also lower costs. Also, funds … that hold clear views on risk management realize higher alpha and return/risk ratios …
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In this paper, we shed light on the debate about the financial performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds by separately analyzing the contributions of before-fee performance and fees to SRI funds' performance and by investigating the role played by fund management...
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relationship between local bias and risk-adjusted portfolio return while controlling for alternative exogenous determinants within …
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