Mutual fund performance is an unending area of interest both for academicians as well as fund managers for the simple reason as it is a product meant for retail investor. A set of performance measures like Sharpe ratio, Jensen's Alpha are widely used measures. But in today's volatile market...

Influenced by their compensation plans, CEOs make their own luck through decisions that affect future firm risk. After adopting a relative performance evaluation (RPE) plan, total and idiosyncratic risk are higher, and the correlation between firm and industry performance is lower. The opposite...