Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing risk structure of German open-end funds using semi variance based performance measures. Design/methodology: The analysis focuses on an appropriate benchmark and compares classical performance measures with LPM based measures....

This paper studies the persistence of mutual fund performance. Academic research often focuses on fund returns. This study intends to examine the performance of selected Large cap and Mid cap mutual fund schemes of Indian Mutual fund industry during the study period 2007 to 2011. The performance...

The present research aims to an overview of the mutual fund in Egypt. The establishment of the first mutual funds was achieved in 1994. Nowadays, the total mutual funds reached 90 funds, approximately. The income funds represent the largest share of the Egyptian mutual funds (40%), growth funds...