Mutual fund industry is growing leaps and bounds in India. Numbers of investors in mutual funds are increasing rapidly. Investors invest in mutual funds either with the help of PMS or using their own judgments and knowledge. At the same time, there are sizeable numbers of people who shy away...

Mutual funds investing in emerging market economy (EME) bonds have increased almost seven-fold since the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (Graph 1). This development has raised two questions from a financial stability perspective. Firstly, how important is it to understand the fund-flow performance...

We provide the first in-depth examination of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) within actively managed mutual fund (AMMF) portfolios to better understand why AMMFs make substantial investments in passive ETFs. We examine the association between holding ETF positions and AMMF performance, as well as...

This paper investigates investor disagreement and clientele effects in performance evaluation by developing a measure that considers the best potential clienteles of mutual funds. In an incomplete market under law-of-one-price and no-good-deal conditions, we obtain an upper bound on admissible...

To understand why investors hold socially responsible mutual funds, we link administrative data to survey responses and behavior in incentivized experiments. We find that both social preferences and social signaling explain socially responsible investment (SRI) decisions. Financial motives play...

To understand why investors hold socially responsible mutual funds, we link administrative data to survey responses and behavior in incentivized experiments. We find that both social preferences and social signaling explain socially responsible investment (SRI) decisions. Financial motives play...

We present a framework for deciding when to choose an alternative to passively investing in capitalization-weighted indices within any particular asset class. Five reasons are identified for seeking an alternative. Three of these reflect situations where a capitalization-weighted index is either...

The success of a mutual fund depends upon the awareness and confidence level of the investors. The investment pattern varies with age, education, gender, occupation. The present study is conducted with the objective of assessing the awareness level of the investors. The study was conducted in...

This study shows that mutual fund managers vary in their reliance on category-level information, relative to firm-specific information about assets. Moreover, fund performance decreases with managers' propensity to rely on categories. Fund managers display less skill in picking stocks which are...

By evaluating the performance of 772 funds, this study seeks to examine whether fund managers add any value by their fund allocation decision. After selecting the securities for investment, fund managers need to decide as to how much to be invested in the selected securities. They can actively...