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Growing acceptance of passive bond exchange traded funds (ETFs) and actively managed bond mutual funds has exposed the … analysis of actively managed bond funds and passive bond ETFs in the context of multiple criteria. The research of risk …-adjusted performance of a sampled group of bond funds and ETFs using the TOPSIS multi-criteria decision-making method revealed that …
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This paper studies the role of investors' optimism about future economic growth in their investment decisions. Based on simple intuition, we argue that investors base their future investment decisions not only on asset-specific information, but also on their expectations about future economic...
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This paper examines whether investors' optimism about the future economic growth affects their future investment decisions. Drawing from the insights of the theoretical literature on investment behavior, we argue that investors base their future investment decisions not only on asset-specific...
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We examine whether professional money managers overreact to large climatic disasters. We find that managers within a major disaster region underweight disaster zone stocks to a much greater degree than distant managers and that this aversion to disaster zone stocks is related to a salience bias...
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This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of … contagion analysis using data on fund flows and returns shows that Investment Grade (IG) corporate bonds funds, municipal bond … funds and government bond funds are more likely to spread distress to other fund categories than HY, EM and loan funds. When …
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This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of … contagion analysis using data on fund flows and returns shows that Investment Grade (IG) corporate bonds funds, municipal bond … funds and government bond funds are more likely to spread distress to other fund categories than HY, EM and loan funds. When …
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Unlike traditional bonds, Floating-rate bonds (FRB) do not have a fixed rate coupon. Instead, their rate fluctuates or floats based on the market plus a spread. As a result, FRBs tend to be less vulnerable to interest-rate fluctuations. Many believe FRBs can help preserve principal, while...
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