In the mutual funds industry the rating process is very important, and Morningstar is surely the most influential international rating agency.In this work we consider the problem of evaluating if the risk component is adequately accounted for in the Morningstar rating. To face this problem we...

This paper proposes a method to evaluate if risk is adequately accounted for in the Morningstar rating system. The analysis is based on the comparison between the rating obtained ignoring the risk component and those obtained increasing the weight of risk and, in particular, for the level of...

The financial economics literature proposes dozens of performance measures to be used, for instance, to compare, analyze, rank and select assets. There is thus a problem: which measures should be considered? The authors extend the current literature by comparing a large set of performance...

The financial economics literature proposes dozens of performance measures to be used, for instance, to compare, analyse, rank and select assets. There is thus a problem: which measures should be considered? We extend the current literature by comparing a large set of performance measures over...

The financial economics literature proposes dozens of performance measures to be used, for instance, to compare, analyze, rank and select assets. There is thus a problem: which measures should be considered? The authors extend the current literature by comparing a large set of performance...

Within an asset allocation framework, when the number of assets is larger than the sample dimension, mean-variance approaches cannot be used due to the limited number of degrees of freedom. In such a situation, performance measures could be used to rank assets, and then select a subset of them...