This is the first paper to explore which characteristics of Russian fund managers are connected with a higher abnormal return (measured by Jensen's alpha) and risk (beta) for mutual funds. While only some fund managers publish biographic sketches we use the Heckman procedure to control for...

Our work is focused on Russian mutual funds managers' skills versus luck testing. Using the bootstrap procedure of Kosowski et al. (2007) we test Jensen's alpha significance for each fund. We found that only 5% of equity mutual funds do have skills. These results for the emerging Russian market...