This paper proposes and tests a flow-based explanation for three important empirical findings on return predictability – the persistence of mutual fund performance, the “smart money” effect, and stock price momentum. Since mutual fund managers generally scale up or down their existing positions in response to investment flows, and since the portfolios of funds receiving capital generally differ...

The paper investigates the role of trust in fund managers’ investment process. Three types of trust personal trust, organizational trust and system trust have been identified in Chinese fund managers’ investment practice. The impacts of different types of trust on mutual funds’ performance are then examined empirically. Through an in-depth investigation of 96 actively managed Chinese mutual fun...

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...

By the end of 2018, the net asset value in total and the number of Sharia mutual funds in Indonesia is dominated by the Sharia equity fund. Therefore, this study sought to address the factors of internal and external factors affecting the Sharia equity funds’ performance in Indonesia in the period 2010-2018. The fund performance is measured with the Sharpe ratio. The determinants of fund perfor...

-In this study, it is discussed about the mutual fund knowledge and awareness among the investors with a special reference to Chennai city. It is difficult to selective group the investors in a sample as such the population of Chennai city is large in number. Compared to earlier days the investment options are changing from risk free to riskier investments. The analyses also shows that compared...

We hypothesize that trust plays an important role in affecting the activeness and effectiveness of the global mutual fund industry. Empirically, trust is positively associated with the activeness of domestic funds, whereas for internationals mutual funds conducting cross-border investments activeness is bounded by the trust of lowtrust countries. In both cases, trust-related active share delive...