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Kiwisaver, who is really reaping the benefits?

open access: yesApplied Finance Letters, 2014
New Zealand KiwiSaver fund industry enjoys a near monopoly situation, with no exposure to international competition. Annual fees that KiwiSaver funds charge New Zealanders (which are now close to $350 million p.a.) are far above international standards ...
Bart Frijns, Alireza Tourani-Rad
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Factors influencing SRI fund performance [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Capital Markets Studies, 2019
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine socially responsible investment (SRI) fund performance and investigate the factors influencing fund performance.
Halil Kiymaz
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The Determinants of Convexity in the Flow-Performance Relationship: A Study of Pakistani Mutual Funds

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to study the potential sources of convexity in the flow-performance relationship curve in the Asian region. Design/Methodology/Approach: The sample for this study includes 75 mutual funds from three broader investment ...
Saleh Nawaz Khan   +3 more
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Does direct-sold funds provide a sizeable edge to investors? Evidences from selected mutual funds in India

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2019
In this study, an attempt has been made to find out why investors still prefer broker-sold fund over direct-sold fund despite the superior performance of the latter.
Jayanta Kumar Seal, Arunima Paul
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Unobserved Performance of Hedge Funds [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
ABSTRACTWe investigate hedge fund firms’ unobserved performance (UP), measured as the risk‐adjusted return difference between a firm's reported gross return and its portfolio return inferred from its disclosed long‐equity holdings. Firms with high UP outperform those with low UP by 6.36% per annum on a risk‐adjusted basis.
Agarwal, Vikas   +2 more
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Is Scientific Performance a Function of Funds? [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
The management of universities demands data on teaching and research performance. While teaching parameters can be measured via student performance and teacher evaluation programs, the connection of research outputs and their grant antecedents is much harder to check, test and understand.
Zharova, Alona   +2 more
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Mutual Fund Management and Fund Performance

open access: yesJournal of Business & Economics Research (JBER), 2011
This study examines management characteristics, including education and experience, as determinants of mutual fund performance.  Managers with graduate degrees did not perform differently from managers without graduate degrees.  However, graduates of top 20 MBA programs outperformed MBAs from business schools not on the top 50 Wall Street Journal list. 
Barbara S. Poole   +2 more
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The Investment Styles and Performance of AI-Related ETFs: Analyzing the Impact of Active Management

open access: yesFinTech
This paper studies the performance of ETFs that invest in companies involved in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as firms focused on AI research, development, and applications.
Nikoletta Poutachidou, Alexandros Koulis
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Indirect effects of flow-performance sensitivity on fund performance

open access: yesBorsa Istanbul Review, 2023
This study examines changes in the flow-performance sensitivity (FPS) among funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) after the global financial crisis and the Madoff scandal. We also explore whether these changes in FPS affect fund performance.
Sangik Seok   +3 more
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Biodiversity Mutual Funds and ETFs: Characteristics, Performance, Risk, and Fees

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies
This paper provides an exploratory analysis of biodiversity-themed funds and offers early evidence on their characteristics, performance, risk, fees, and sustainability metrics. Using a sample of 24 open-end biodiversity funds (18 mutual funds and 6 ETFs)
Fei Fang, Di Luo
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