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,...

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...

A common misconception in finance is that investors who believe in an efficient market will not invest with an active fund manager. In this paper I develop a model of active money management in which both the investor and the fund manager believe that the market is efficient and that all assets...