Though there are numerous financial assets in our capital market for the investors to invest their money attainment of more return, Mutual Funds play a predominant role acting as most favorable asset increase wealth by offering schemes. Investors who eyeing on mix various one single scheme can consider investing hybrid funds. That is why we conducting study selected mutual types funds have take...

Performance measurement is an integral part of investment analysis and risk management. The goal of performance measurement is to build a ranking of different investments on the basis of risk-adjusted returns in order to evaluate the relative success of these investments. The Sharpe Ratio is the best-known measure of this type. It considers the first two moments of the return distribution (expe...

the relationship between finance and other social sciences as known behavioural finance, evaluate investors to the decision-making process and their reaction to different conditions of financial markets deals. in this study assumed that analysts are specialist in fundamental and technical analysis and then influence their personality characteristics is evaluated on their performance. statistica...

To measure economic profits generated by an insurance policy during its life time, we compare the terminal assets of the policy account with certain breakeven value. Policies with mutil-year loss payments and income tax payments are studied. The breakeven value of terminal assets is given in closed form, and shown to be an increasing function of the claims risk and the asset investment risk. Pr...

introduction: the greatest part of constructed dams belongs to embankment dams and there are many examples of their failures throughout history. about one-third of the world’s dam failures have been caused by flood overtopping, which indicates that flood overtopping is an important factor affecting reservoir projects’ safety. moreover, because of a poor understanding of the randomness of floods...

The present study aims at investigating the relationship between firm specific risk and stock return using cross-sectional quantile regression. In order to study the power of firm specific risk in explaining cross-sectional return, a combination of Fama-Macbeth (1973) model and quantile regression is used. To this aim, a sample of 270 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 1999-2010 was i...

“Integrated Enterprise Balancing with integrated return and risk databases” To support a value-based management and to satisfy regulatory transparency requirements and legal reporting obligations, corporations require a corporate-wide consistent database with return and risk information. Despite existing technical integration approaches, such as datawarehouse or OLAP solutions, the development ...