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Basel II defines operational risk as the risk of direct or indirect loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes people or systems or from external events. In the past decade there have appeared a number of quantitative approaches to measuring this risk, approaches that abstract...
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First, this study reviews Morningstar analytical grading measures used by investors to choose mutual funds. These measures include Morningstar star ratings, analyst ratings, total pillar ratings, upside and downside capture ratios, and stewardship ratings. Second, the study provides results of...
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First, this study reviews Morningstar analytical grading measures used by investors to choose mutual funds. These measures include Morningstar Star Ratings, Analyst Ratings, Total Pillar Ratings, Upside and Downside Capture Ratios, and Stewardship Ratings. Second, the study provides results of...
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We build a model of mutual fund competition in which a fraction of investors, unsophisticated, exhibit a preference for … sophisticated investors. High-familiarity funds do not engage in competition for sophisticated investors either, and choose instead …-familiarity funds survive competition from higher quality funds despite offering lower after-fee performance. Our model can thus shed …
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-sold funds in India. We do not find any evidence that direct-sold funds underperform the broker-sold funds. Despite the superior … services provided by the brokers. We find that fund houses in India offer both direct and broker-sold funds to target different …
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The importance of asset allocation decisions in wealth management is well established. However, given its importance it is perhaps surprising that so little attention has been paid to the question of whether professional fund managers are skillful at timing market movement across asset classes...
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Apparently “there is no substitute for experience”. This and similar phrases are often heard in the worlds of politics, business, sport and others. It is the sort of proposition that makes sense to people. However, while the performance of actively managed funds has attracted a great deal of...
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Increasingly, consultants for fund management firms care about the riskiness of fund managers’ investment strategies. Fund managers themselves must care about the riskiness of their investment strategies vis-a-vis the client’s specified benchmark
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