To many people, the terror of falling share prices is often significant, often more so than the pleasure of gains. Accordingly, investors often want to minimize downside volatility as a part of their portfolio planning. Investors already have several tools to measure downside volatility,...

This paper aims to evaluate the performance of A-Type Turkish equity funds between January 2009 and November 2014. This study period coincides with the period of quantitative easing during which the developing economies in financial markets have been influenced dramatically. Thanks to the...

We apply the Quantile Regression Model to observe the rankcorrelation between bond fund performance and asset,volatility, management fee, Sharpe index and show that fundperformance between volatility as a negative significantrelationship, implied extreme values have been generated...

While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...