Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Anna E. Olkova
Author-Email: anna.olkova@rambler.ru
Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow 119571, Russia
Title: Mutual Funds Performance Assessment Techniques: Comparative Analysis
Abstract: The article examines existing approaches to assessing mutual funds portfolio performance. The author considers major advantages and drawbacks of diverse upside potential and risk measures, as well as the most commonly used portfolio efficiency metrics. Empirical evidence of 12 most popular performance measures on a base of 255 Russian mutual funds sample is provided. Moreover, the author demonstrates that semi-variance and alpha-based metrics yield rankings that differ essentially from those provided by volatility-based, VaR-based and other metrics. Finally, the article discusses the rationale for different performance measures use.
Classification-JEL: C10, G11, G23
Keywords: mutual funds, portfolio management, performance measurement, risk measurement, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, downside risk measures
Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal
Pages: 85-95
Issue: 3
Year: 2017
Month: June
File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2017/3/articles/fm_2017_3_07.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:170307:p:85-95