This article defines the investor-specific performance measure ISM necessary for investors in practically relevant decision situations. In such situations a typical investor creates an overall protfolio consisting of three parts: an arbitrary fund, a risk-free asset and an existing, fixed...

This article adds new insights to the ongoing discussion of whether the Sharpe ratio is appropriate to assess the performance of funds in abnormal periosd, e.b., when average excess returns of funds are negative. We show two main factors influencing the Sharpe ratio: first, of course, the...

Die Sharpe Ratio wird seit Mitte der 60er Jahre zur Beurtilung der Leistung von Finds eingesetzt. Zugleich wird ihre Eignung in der Literatur insbesondere für Perioden sinkender Aktienkurse kontrovers diskutiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag legt zunächst die Ursachen dieser Diskussionen dar und...

In 1997, Modigliani and Modigliani developed the risk-adjusted performance measure RAP (often called Msquared),which is now widely accepted in theory and practice. Their measure has further increased investorawareness of risk-adjusted performance measurement. However, this measure uses the...

Short-Zertifikate sind eine äußerst erfolgreiche Finanzinnovation der jüngsten Vergangenheit.Ein Marktüberblick zeigt die mittlerweile hohe Bedeutung dieser Produktartin Deutschland.n Kapitalmarkttheoretisch sind Short-Zertifikate identisch mit Knock-Out-Puts. Sie weisendarüber hinaus...

In their seminal paper on bond fund performance, Blake, Elton and Gruber (1993) state that survivorship bias is unimportant for this market segment. Many bond fund studies have since been published without treating survivorship bias despite the dramatic changes in the market over the last 20...

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...

Economic theory postulates that financial institutions are exposed to a significant interest rate risk which is largely due to their engagement in maturity transformation. Although this maturity transformation and the associated risk is of interest to all stakeholders of financial institutions,...

We present the first broad overview of the factors determining corporate bond fund success and failure in terms of performance and survival. We show that the main determinant of survival is size. Performance matters only for small funds while large funds survive unconditionally, consistent with...

This Internet Appendix contains mathematical and empirical results on the market timing induced bias in Jensen's alpha using conditional models with time-varying skill in the spirit of Kacperczyk et al. (2014).Full paper available at "https://ssrn.com/abstract=1253923"...