This paper addresses a problem of finding portfolios that perform better than investment funds while showing similar behaviour. The quality of investment portfolio can be measured using various criteria such as the return and some kind of risk measurement. Investors seek to maximize return while minimizing risk. In order to achieve this goal various instruments are considered. One of the possib...

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 development of the Islamic finance industry in Indonesia has experienced a rapid increase, one which is investment activities that occur capital market. mutual funds are an alternative for public investing. Mixed Sharia Mutual Funds form product from sharia have less risk than other types funds. measuring instrument fund Net Asset Value (NAV). Things can affect,the NAV mutual,fund BI rate, ...

One of the main functionalities of capital market is to improve liquidityin the market which provides security for the investors. Mutual funds aremodern financial institutions which are designed with the aim of collectingfunds from investors and devote them to buy a variety of securities inorder to mitigate investment risks, exploit the economies of scale andfinally create a reasonable return f...

In this paper we present an application for the construction of mutual fund portfolios. It is based on a combination of Intelligent Methods, namely an argumentation based decision making framework and a forecasting algorithm combining Genetic Algorithms (GA), MultiModel Partitioning (MMP) theory and Extended Kalman Filters (EKF). The argumentation framework is employed in order to develop mutua...

We study the use of stochastic discount factor (SDF) models in evaluating the investment performance of portfolio managers. By constructing artificial mutual funds with known levels of investment ability, we evaluate a large set of SDF models. We find that the measures of performance are not highly sensitive to the SDF model, and that most of the models have a mild negative bias when performanc...