In the wake of the market timing and late trading mutual fund scandals, many mutual funds adopted redemption fees to limit market timing. In this paper we investigate the impact of redemption fees on the risk-adjusted performance of U.S.-based international equity funds, the very funds that many...

This study examines whether higher-paid workers have significantly higher rates of return on their 401(k) retirement accounts than lower-paid workers. This topic received considerable attention when Brooks Hamilton, a prominent benefits consultant, stated on the PBS program Frontline that the...

This paper represents the first specific attempt in the literature to examine the relationship between active share and emerging market equity fund performance. Using a sample of U.S. based diversified emerging market equity funds whose prospectus benchmark is the MSCI emerging market equity...

This paper examines the relationship between mutual fund governance and the activeness of equity mutual funds. Using a fund's corporate culture as a proxy for its governance and controlling for other variables, we find that funds with the better governance are significantly more active than...

Closet indexing is the practice of staying close to the benchmark index while still maintaining to be an active mutual fund manager and probably also charging fees similar to those of truly active managers. Recent work shows active mutual fund managers were much more likely to closet index...