This article examines the interest-rate sensitivity of listed financial service companies in the German capital market based on the fundamental approach developed by Stone (1974). This means using a market and an interest-rate factor for explaining returns on shares, whereas empirical studies...

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...

This is the first paper systematically calculating, testing and explaining different definitions of the survivorship bias in fund performance. We document that the survival-performance-relation is stronger for small funds and we find significant under-performance of non-survivors but no...