We provide a first look at the performance of Chinese open-end mutual funds from 2001 to 2008 using data from a high quality mutual fund database provided by the GTA Information Technology Co., Ltd. From daily return data, we find that some Chinese open-end mutual funds can provide statistically...

The aggregate portfolio of Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds exhibits a large and significantly positive alpha. Results from bootstrap simulations indicate that most Chinese active stock mutual fund managers have skill. A substantial amount of their outperformance can be attributed to...

We compare different fund performance measures to examine which performance measures can generate risk-adjusted returns between high ranked and low ranked China's actively managed open-end equity mutual funds. Our results show that only the 6-factor (Fama and French (2015) five factors plus a...