Investment funds in China started in 1991. After 20 years of development, the mutual fund industry is now offering a rich product line for investors. At present, individual investors hold about 90% of the mutual fund with more than 90,000,000 fund accounts. Mutual fund purchasing has become the preferred way of managing money for urban residents in China. This paper study on risk assessment met...

Investor reaction to mutual fund performance conditions the behavior of mutual fund managers and fund complexes and thus has widely reaching ramifications for the trading of assets worldwide. In particular, the mutual funds literature has long argued that convexity in the money flow-performance relation influences risk-taking by funds. Existing empirical studies, however, largely focus on the a...

Non-Proprietary Mutual Fund (Load Fund). XYZ MF Large Cap Fund, Class A Class B Class C. [ • ]% sales load as applicable. [ • ]% dealer concession. [ • ]% of transactional fee Extent considered in annual bonus. [ • ]% expense ratio. [ • ]% 12b–1 fee, revenue sharing (paid by fund/affiliate). [ • ]% of ongoing fees. Extent considered in annual bonus. N/A ................. Breakpoints (as applica...

T his study is the second in a two-part analysis of the mutual fund industry. The first part (Fortune 1997, referred to here as " Part I ") examined the basic structure of the industry and discussed the historical relationship between mutual fund flows and returns on both short-term and long-term financial instruments. That study ended with a discussion of the role that momentum investing by mu...

This paper examines problems in the CRSP Survivor Bias Free U.S. Mutual Fund Database ~CRSP, 1998! and compares returns contained in it to those in Morningstar. The CRSP database has an omission bias that has the same effects as survivorship bias. Although all mutual funds are listed in CRSP, return data is missing for many and the characteristics of these funds differ from the populations. The...

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...

This study analyzes IQ’s influence on mutual fund choice. Using a comprehensive dataset of Finnish males, it finds that high-IQ investors are less likely to own balanced funds, actively managed funds, and funds marketed through a retail network. This behavior tends to reduce highIQ investors’ fund fees. Moreover, within each asset class and service category, and controlling for other investor a...

This paper studies the relation between individuals’ mutual fund flows and fund characteristics, establishing three key results. First, consistent with tax motivations, individual investors are reluctant to sell mutual funds that have appreciated in value and are willing to sell losing funds. Second, individuals pay attention to investment costs as redemption decisions are sensitive to both exp...

Financial support from IFM2 and SSHRC are gratefully acknowledged. The usual disclaimer applies. Please do not quote without the authors' permission. Abstract. We study M&A activity in the US mutual fund industry over the period 1962-2009. Any improvement in abnormal performance around M&As accrues primarily to target unitholders. The risk level of acquirers increases around such transactions. ...