The research aimed to check whether investment fund managers maintain costs similarly from period to period. The research verified the hypothesis that managers maintain costs in the subsequent periods at a similar level. The study used a method based on contingency tables which are used to...

Mutual fund is an investment company or trust that pools the resources from thousands of its unit holders, who share common investment goal, and then diversifies its investments into different types of securities in order to realize potential returns with reasonable safety.The objective of the...

The research object of this paper is to scrutinize the risk-adjusted returns of the five largest Croatian open-end equity mutual funds (ZB Aktiv, PBZ Equity, Raiffeisen Central Europe, Erste Adriatic Equity, and ZB Trend), and to compare each of them individually with a selection of the...

In this paper we consider a loss averse investor equipped with a specific, but still quite general, utility function motivated by behavioral finance. We show that under some concrete assumptions about the form of this utility one can derive closed-form solutions for the investor's portfolio...

The 52-week high share price has been shown by George and Hwang (2004) to carry significant predictive ability for individual stock returns, dominating other common momentum-based trading strategies. This study examines the performance of trading strategies for mutual funds based on (1) an...

The economies of various states and geographic areas behave differently than the U.S. economy as a whole. Because of these differences, this paper explores the potential for offering geographically focused mutual funds. Geographically focused mutual funds would allow investors to custom tailor...

The aggregate portfolio of Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds exhibits a large and significantly positive alpha. Results from bootstrap simulations indicate that most Chinese active stock mutual fund managers have skill. A substantial amount of their outperformance can be attributed to...

I estimate a mean-variance efficient (MVE) portfolio assuming that the MVE frontier is spanned by optimal portfolios that fund managers offer to heterogeneous investors. Consistent with predictions of mutual fund separation, the estimated MVE portfolio can price the cross section of portfolios...

A common misconception in finance is that investors who believe in an efficient market will not invest with an active fund manager. In this paper I develop a model of active money management in which both the investor and the fund manager believe that the market is efficient and that all assets...

This paper proves a class of static fund separation theorems, valid for investors with a long horizon and constant relative risk aversion, and with stochastic investment opportunities. An optimal portfolio decomposes as a constant mix of a few preference-free funds, which are common to all...