The case for index funds is predicated on the observed inability of active managers to outperform market indexes over long periods. Agency conflicts between investors and fund managers are another important motivation, as index funds benefit from simple, unambiguous accountability

Closed-end funds have been a topic of lively debate for several decades. In this paper I focus on studies relating to liquidity, sentiment and segmentation and, in particular, on studies that investigate closedend country funds. I extend the previous survey by Dimson & Minio- Kozerski (1999) by...

This is the first paper analyzing the impact of index momentum factors on the performance of international and global equity funds. Extending an international, index-based version of the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model by adding the factors of country momentum and sector momentum, we...

We propose a portfolio holdings-based method for evaluating global equity funds that decomposes excess returns versus benchmark indices into contributions from six equity and three currency ‘style factors', and alpha. The method is used to characterize sources of performance for institutional...