Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets

Managers, Investors, and Crises: Mutual Fund Strategies in Emerging Markets

Tests of Market Timing and Mutual Fund Performance

Asset allocation decisions of mutual fund investors

I extend the Warther (1995) evidence to show that stock market returns are related to contemporaneous flows into mutual funds that invest in risky stocks and bonds, but are unrelated to flows into funds that invest in safer stocks and bonds. I examine whether common sources of predictability in returns and flows can explain this contemporaneous relation. I find that variables with predictive ab...

A Review of Mutual Investment Funds Performance with a View of Market Timing

Appropriate function of active management in common investment funds function depend on factors such as diversification, identification papers unrealistic pricing, market timing, and so on. Market timing are include changing the portfolio investment funds and market indices such as short-term bonds and make an asset depends on whether the market is expected in the whole of the assets to make be...

Behavior and performance of emerging market investors: Evidence from China

We study brokerage account data from China to study investing behavior and trading performance in an emerging market. Chinese stock markets are new, so we assume that Chinese investors are less experienced about investing as compared to investors from more capitalistic oriented societies. We find that Chinese investors exhibit behavioral biases (i.e., they seem overconfident, inclined toward a ...