Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Criteria for Mutual Fund Selection -- Chapter 3: Investment for Intermediate and Long Horizons -- Chapter 4: Estimating Future Performance – The Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe Ratio -- Chapter 5: Active Versus Passive Investment -- Chapter 6: Target Date Funds,...

The mutual fund industry has experienced huge growth internationally, becoming one of the primary vehicles through which individuals and most institutions invest in capital markets. Thus, the evaluation of the performance of mutual funds has become a very interesting research topic both for...

I find that the risk correction in the Daniel et al. (1997) (DGTW) benchmarks is less than perfect. In light of the small 79bps selection skill DGTW find, a more precise risk measure is required. I use the utility based performance measure suggested by Goetzmann et al. (2007) (MPPM) and compare...

The portfolio performance evaluation involves the determination of how a managed portfolio has performed relative to some comparison benchmark. Performance evaluation methods generally fall into two categories, namely conventional and risk-adjusted methods. The most widely used conventional...

In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the performance of six growth-oriented equity schemes of Mutual Funds (HDFC, Morgan Stanley, Principal, LIC, Sundaram and SBI) on the basis of monthly returns compared to the benchmark returns (Sensex and Nifty). For this purpose, risk adjusted...