The aim of this work is to examine the influence of mutual fund flows on market timing models, thus providing unbiased timing coefficients. However, as this control is motivated by the existing relationship between mutual fund flows and market returns, we first analyse this relationship,...

This paper represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to bring together all of the biases affecting traditional timing models that have been identified in the literature. These biases are the cause of spurious coefficients and our aim is to propose certain corrective measures....

This work corrects the risk quotient penalization carried out by the Sharpe and Treynor ratios, which, assuming normality in returns distribution, are equivalent to classifying the funds according to the probability of their returns being below that of the risk-free asset, without considering...