MANAGERIAL ABILITIES AND FACTOR INVESTMENT STYLE PERFORMANCES OF MALAYSIAN MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS

Dynamics of Risk Perception Towards Mutual Fund Investment Decisions

The present paper measures the risk perception of the bank employees in respect of investment in mutual fund and to identify the factors affecting risk perception. The paper also attempts to find out the impact of these factors on overall risk perception. The study is based on primary data collected by using questionnaire from the bank employees in Tripura state of India. For the analysis of da...

Essays on the Role of Investment Banks as IPO Underwriters, Mutual Fund Managers, and Merger Advisors

Do Mutual Fund Managers Monitor Executive Compensation?

We find significant relations between active mutual fund portfolio holdings and executive compensation, which appear to be largely driven by mutual fund investment styles rather than monitoring behaviour. Aggressive growth fund holdings are associated with performance pay, while income fund holdings are negatively related. We also find that mutual fund holdings are insensitive to changes in exe...

Style Dispersion and Mutual Fund Performance∗

We estimate investment style dispersions for individual actively managed equity mutual funds, which describe how widely fund investments are distributed around the core fund style along the dimensions of size, book-to-market, and momentum, respectively. We find that high style dispersions, especially that along the size dimension, are associated with superior fund performance, consistent with h...

Investment Style and Performance in The Global Real Estate Mutual Fund Market

This paper investigates the performance of 402 real estate mutual funds worldwide during the period from March 1997 through April 2007. With the exception of funds targeting Asia, these funds generally adhere to their stated investment mandate, while global funds are mostly invested in the United States and the United Kingdom. Between 72 percent and 92 percent of the performance of these funds ...