Cryptocurrencies and Portfolio Performance. Does Cryptocurrency Help Improve the Portfolio Performance?

Portfolio Performance Evaluation

This paper provides a review of the methods for measuring portfolio performance and the evidence on the performance of professionally managed investment portfolios. Traditional performance measures, strongly influenced by the Capital Asset Pricing Model of Sharpe (1964), were developed prior to 1990. We discuss some of the properties and important problems associated with these measures. We the...

Investment Portfolio Performance Evaluation

Most people who contract with financial managers do not have much understanding of how much benefit paid support provides them in terms of investment return. Similarly, most people who manage their own portfolios do not know how well they are doing with respect to the rest of the financial market – they simply define a successful portfolio by a positive return on investment. The goal of this pr...

Total Portfolio Performance Attribution Methodology

Does portfolio manager ownership affect fund performance? Finnish evidence

By using a unique dataset of Finnish mutual funds and fund managers, we investigate whether manager ownership is related to fund performance. When we examine manager ownership measured as a percentage of the fund’s total assets, we find no relation between ownership and performance. This finding contradicts with US evidence. Further, when we employ ownership measured as a percentage of the mana...

Portfolio Performance Measurement: Theory and Applications

Any admissible portfolio performance measure should satisfy four minimal conditions: it assigns zero performance to each reference portfolio and it is linear, continuous, and nontrivial. Such an admissible measure exists if and only if the securities market obeys the law of one price. A positive admissible measure exists if and only if there is no arbitrage. This article characterizes the (infi...