management fees and weaker expense ratio. In such conditions, conventional and Islamic fund managers have lower performance and …, and political risk affect the performance, risk-taking behavior and compensation fees of mutual funds. Overall, the … results show strongly that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have robust differential effects on fees, performance …

are. Using not only the net asset values of the funds as reported by the fund management companies, but the prices … the performance of GOEREFs when the most relevant prices are used – those that may be achieved directly, rather than using …

This paper examines the performance of Australian managed funds by adopting the false discovery rate (FDR). Comparing … information improves the performance of Australian managed funds, shifting the distribution of alphas to the right. This result is … performance persistence by controlling the FDR, we find that Australian managed funds do not exhibit performance persistence. …

improved their asset allocation performance. Second, the sensitivity between risk-taking and performance decreased for funds … that adopted OCIO. Third, it is found that OCIO adoption improves a fund's asset management execution (tactical …

We evaluate the performance of 51 mutual fund families based on a study of their diversified US managed mutual funds … over an 11 year period and explore the determinants of performance gross of published expenses. We find that mutual fund …

We present an analysis of the performance of the Spanish Stock Market over the last six years, examining the most … constraints as implied by the definition of the IBEX 35® index. We estimate the distribution of performance values of all feasible … portfolios according to different performance measures and evaluate the position of the IBEX 35® with respect to this feasible …

This paper aims to study the performance of Islamic finance regarding that of conventional finance over the last decade … higher performance and lower risk. Indeed, thanks to the ethical and moral aspect of Islamic finance, its products seem to be … financial downturns. In this paper, we address this question using different indicators and measures of performance that we have …

activity and performance of actively managed U.S. equity funds from 2000 to 2007 and document robust evidence that future … performance is positively related to past stock picking and negatively associated with past market timing. Finally, we find that … performance while market timing decreases performance. …

We provide evidence of a significant relation between diversification and performance in the hedge fund industry … performance and diversification across sectors and asset classes. We show that on a risk adjusted basis, hedge funds that … significant positive relation between performance and diversification across sectors. However, diversifying across asset classes …