The present paper investigates the performance of open-ended, growth-oriented equity schemes for the period from April 2011 to March 2015 of transition economy. Daily closing NAV of different schemes have been used to calculate the returns from the fund schemes. BSE-sensex has been used for market portfolio. The historical performance of the selected schemes were evaluated on the basis of Sharp...

We have carried out a detailed comparison of the statistical properties and the relationships between a set of five performance measures using 14 UK based Investment Trusts over a sample period ranging from 1980 to 2001. Our results suggest very clearly that there is almost no difference between Jensen’s Alpha, the Treynor-Mazuy (TM) measure and the Positive Period Weighting(PPW) measure over o...

This study aims at getting a better performance for optimal stock portfolios by modeling stocks prices dynamics through a continuous paths Levy process. To this end, the share prices are simulated using a multi-dimensional geometric Brownian motion model. Then, we use the results to form the optimal portfolio by maximizing the Sharpe ratio and comparing the findings with the outputs of the conv...

the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of information delay on theperformance of joint investment funds. in order to achieve the aim of thisstudy sample consisted of twenty funds in the tehran stock exchange from2010 to 2014 the systematic elimination method has been adopted. in thisstudy, the linear regression test has been used in order to evaluate the researchhypothesis. data analys...

mutual funds are the best tool to mobilize savings and investments in an economy and pakistan is the pioneer in south asia, but this industry is not as much mature in comparison to its age in pakistan. this paper examines the performance of closed ended mutual funds in pakistan by using five different ranking measures during a period of january 2009 to december 2013 and the sample consists of o...

The Sharpe ratio is the prominent risk-adjusted performance measure used by practitioners. Statistical testing of this ratio using its asymptotic distribution has lagged behind its use. In this paper, highly accurate likelihood analysis is applied for inference on the Sharpe ratio. Both the oneand two-sample problems are considered. The methodology has O n−3/2 distributional accuracy and can be...

Sharpe-like ratios have been traditionally used to measure the performances of portfolio managers. However, they are known to suffer major drawbacks. Among them, two are intricate: (1) they are relative to a peer’s performance and (2) the best score is generally assumed to correspond to a “good” portfolio allocation, with no guarantee on the goodness of this allocation. Last but not least (3) t...

We propose to train trading systems and portfolios by optimizing objective functions that directly measure trading and investment performance. Rather than basing a trading system on forecasts or training via a supervised learning algorithm using labelled trading data, we train our systems using recurrent reinforcement learning (RRL) algorithms. The performance functions that we consider for rei...

Main academic criticism on the Sharpe ratio concerns its lack in incorporating skewness in performance evaluation. In this note we rewrite the classical Sharpe ratio for skew normal distributions. This new skew-normal Shape ratio consistently moves with skewness and no distorted information on performance is provided. An empirical investigation illustrates skew-normality of mutual and hedge fun...