The mutual fund industry has experienced huge growth internationally, becoming one of the primary vehicles through which individuals and most institutions invest in capital markets. Thus, the evaluation of the performance of mutual funds has become a very interesting research topic both for...

This paper introduces a general continuous-time mathematical framework for solution of dynamic mean-variance control problems. We obtain theoretical results for two classes of functionals: the first one depends on the whole trajectory of the controlled process and the second one is based on its...

This paper applies specific quantitative methods to demonstrate a general theoretical model for measuring strategic performance. The theoretical concepts are universal and measurable for all types of strategic activity by applying the methodology through alternative quantitative analytical...

The internal markets of fund families can encourage member funds to deviate excessively from their investment mandates. Theoretically, we show that fund managers following sufficiently different style benchmarks can engage in risk-shifting by trading with one another at low cost inside their...

We present a novel measure to declare a magnitude of the difference between fund's prospectus investment styles and the fund's actual investment styles on a long- term basis. Our measure incorporates parameter uncertainty in its measurement and through a sequence of pair-wise comparisons of the...

This paper studies the relationship between mutual fund manager investment horizons and managerial risk-taking decisions. I find that in general mutual funds reporting longer maximum evaluation horizons have lower risk levels. The low risk levels helped these funds mitigate their losses in the...

Chapter 1 - Estimating Determinants of a Mutual Fund's Risk and Managerial Performance: In this chapter, we construct a framework that can be used by investors to independently estimate a mutual fund's actual and policy weights in a set of predefined asset classes, and to estimate a mutual...

Performance analysis of mutual funds operating in the Indian markets are mostly dependent on ratio aproach involving methodologies suggested by Sharpe and Treynor. The present paper makes use of non-parametric endogenous benchmarking to evaluate the performance of 16 top performing sectoral...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of size, age, ownership, and load on the efficiency of equity mutual funds in India. Using secondary data on sample of 105 equity mutual fund schemes in India for the period 2011-12, two-stage methodology is applied wherein Data Envelopment...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study concerning conventional and socially responsible mutual funds.We apply a sophisticated operations research algorithm embedded in inverse portfolio optimization on financial market data, ESG-scores and CRSP fund data. Due to our results we...