This paper examines the appropriate measure of performance for real estate mutual funds. Several popular performance measures including Sharpe, Treynor and Sortino measures are evaluated. The results demonstrate that the Sharpe index outperforms the other two alternatives. In order to consider...

The purpose of this research is to explore the viability of utilizing the Morningstar upside/downside capture ratio (UDCR) as viable measure of mutual fund risk and its relation to return. This research examines and compares result of the Sharpe ratio to the Morningstar upside/downside capture...