Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of US mutual funds that invest primarily in emerging market equities and bonds. Design/methodology/approach - The study adopts the Morningstar classification of mutual funds and uses the Lipper US Mutual Fund Database through...

In a passive investing strategy through indexation, the portfolio performance will depend largely on the ability to choose the best index. In this paper, we study the performance of four of the main stock indices in Mexico with the intention of selecting the best one for a passive investing...

Active fund managers are skilled and, on average, have used their skill to generate about $3.2 million per year. Large cross-sectional differences in skill persist for as long as ten years. Investors recognize this skill and reward it by investing more capital in funds managed by better...

While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...

Comparing a fund or any portfolio's performance to a benchmark usually involves risk analysis and attribution analysis. Risk analysis considers measures such as beta and Jensen's alpha to determine if the portfolio is riskier than the benchmark. Attribution analysis decomposes the spread between...

Using regulatory data that are free of self-reporting bias for 2007-2016, we decompose investment returns of 455 Dutch pension funds according to their key investment decisions, i.e. asset allocation, market timing and security selection. In extension to existing papers, we also assess the...

The present article discusses the role of traditional and utility-based approaches in constructing risk-adjusted performance measures. In order to facilitate investor profiling and portfolio assessment we introduce a piecewise-linear utility framework. To model an investor profile, we build an...

We study the performance of a group of foreign exchange reserve managers that are responsible for investing the ECB's official reserves in US dollars, for a value of around $43 billion, using a new dataset which includes detailed portfolio holdings from 2006 to 2010. The ECB reserve managers...

As a country with the largest Muslim majority population in the world, Indonesia is the most potential target market for sharia-based products. This is indicated by the increasing public enthusiasm for various sharia investment products. There are two aims of this study. First aim is to evaluate...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...