The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the performance of mutual funds operated in selected post-transition countries and to analyse their return variability and dispersion. The study sample consists of 294 equity funds (domestic and foreign ones) from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. By...

Using information on climate transition risks embedded in US equity mutual fund portfolios, we report evidence that mutual fund investors consider climate-related transition risk to be an undesirable fund feature and accordingly allocate more money to funds with lower climate-related transition...

This paper explores the role mutual fund herding plays on the return comovement in Chinese stocks. The results show that mutual fund herding significantly reduces the return comovement among Chinese stocks, providing evidence for the existence of a rational herding behavior by mutual funds. We...

Tightening mutual fund regulations, particularly those of debt mutual funds, by the Indian securities market regulator – the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) are making Arbitrage funds get attention. Low risk, attractive tax treatment, and convenience caught investor interest, and...

This paper use Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) instead of risk factors as benchmarks to examine active mutual fund performance distribution. While transaction costs are included in the ETF returns, that is not true regarding risk factors, making it more challenging to characterize extraordinary...

This study investigates the motivation and performance consequence of intentional style drift in an exclusively in-house fund management industry in China. With style drift, fund investors are exposed to investment portfolio outside their risk-return preference but are generally unaware that...

This paper examines the effect of regulatory constraints on fund performance and risk by comparing conventional and UCITS hedge funds. Using a matching estimator approach, we estimate the indirect cost of UCITS regulation to be between 1.06% and 4.05% per annum in terms of risk-adjusted returns....

We evaluate the performance of the US bond mutual fund industry using a comprehensive sample of bond funds over a long time period from January 1998 to February 2017. In this one study, we examine bond fund selectivity, market timing and performance persistence. We evaluate bond funds relative...

This study examines the performance and asset allocation policy of 70 KiwiSaver funds labelled as Growth, Balanced or Conservative over the period October 2007- June 2016. On average, funds underperform their respective benchmarks, with the mean quarterly excess return (after management fees) of...

This study aims to analyze and investigates the factors influencing returns of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in Pakistan. More specifically this study aims to investigate whether macroeconomic and systematic factors affect Shariah compliant Equity, Income and assets allocation mutual...