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Mutual funds portfolio performance evaluation models: Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen index [PDF]

Bankarstvo, 2017
Portfolio performance evaluation is an integral part of a continuous portfolio management process aimed at improving its efficiency. The importance of being familiar with the evaluation models of mutual fund portfolio performance is reflected in the fact
Leković Miljan
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Portfolio Performance Gauging in Discrete Time Using a Luenberger Productivity Indicator [PDF]

This paper proposes a pragmatic, discrete time indicator to gauge the performance of portfolios over time. Integrating the shortage function (Luenberger, 1995) into a Luenberger portfolio productivity indicator (Chambers, 2002), this study estimates the ...
Olivier Brandouy, Kristiaan Kerstens, Walter Briec, Ignace Van de Woestyne   +3 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
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Effectiveness of the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) Program: Interval Selections With Uniform Premium Subsidy Rates

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines interval selection in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) program and evaluates how uniform premium subsidy rates affect optimal interval selections. Using South Dakota as a case study, we show a trend of increasing selection of nonproduction intervals from 2013 to 2024, raising concerns about program
Whoi Cho, Matthew Diersen
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Contrasting the Performance of Active and Passive Unit Trusts under Normal Market Conditions: Is the Experience of Emerging Markets Different?

Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies
The predominant tradition in the literature is to scrutinise the competitive performance of passive and active investment strategies with less regard to the prevailing market climate.
Thabo J. Gopane, Mukundi Ravhura
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Impact of Portfolio Performance on International Portfolio Diversification

International Journal of Religion
Investment opportunity is what we all are looking for every now and then, avenues that can generate maximum return with minimum of risk.  International Portfolio diversification may not fulfill aspiration of investors with globalization spreading its wings in each sphere of economic activity.
Girish Kumar Painoli, Ravi Kumar Bommisetti, Rajesh Prabhakar Kaila, Sree Lakshmi Moorthygari, Archana K, Deepika Krishnan   +5 more
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Conditional Performance Measurement Using Portfolio Weights: Evidence for Pension Funds [PDF]

This paper combines the use of portfolio holdings data and conditioning information to create a new performance measure. Our conditional weight-based measure has several advantages. Using conditioning information avoids biases in weight-based measures as
Wayne Ferson, Kenneth Khang
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
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Performance Enhancement Model of Stock Market Portfolio of Iran Social Security Organization [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Finance
This paper primarily aims to introduce a model to enhance the performance of the stock market portfolio of the Iran Social Security Organization.
Mohammad Reza Ranjbarfallah, Yeganeh Mosavi Jahromi, Asghar Abolhasani, Abbas Johari   +3 more
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Funds of funds portfolio composition and its impact on the performance: evidence from the Italian market [PDF]

Funds of Funds (FoF) are particular investment funds that invest resources in some mutual funds. This type of funds offers the possibility to achieve an higher diversification that an investor can’t realize using other instruments.
Carretta, Alessandro, Mattarocci, Gianluca   +1 more
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