We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...

Consistent with recent findings that investors perceive performance by price changes, cross-sectional return extrapolation comes entirely from capital gains. Stocks that do not pay dividends (capital-gain stocks) experience robust return extrapolation, while dividend-paying stocks do not. Using...

The report provides Pfizer’s performance analysis between 2017 and 2020. It utilized ratio analysis to determine the financial health of this pharmaceutical company. The financial data used in the exercise was obtained from Yahoo Finance. The insights gained from the financial ratio analysis...

The study aims to investigate the effect of audit committee characteristics, represented in (size, independence, and meeting) to the enhancement of performance, for a sample of 460 Jordanian non-financial companies listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period of (2014-2018). To achieve...

The report analyses the financial performance of Moderna Inc for the past four years. Moderna Inc is a biotechnological company that focuses on the development of vaccines using messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. The study collected data about the company from secondary sources which...

Advances in technology and innovation require companies to embrace these new trends to compete and stay ahead in the business world. In particular, there is a need for companies to incorporate Business Analytics practices within their organizations. Business Analytics consists of two components:...

The main aim of this study was to examine the Influence of Management Accounting Practices on Performance of Kisumu County Government. The study aimed specifically to examine how the performance of Kisumu County Government is influenced by financial planning and budgeting and internal control...

Employment quality is a key aspect of the social dimension of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria that socially conscious investors use to evaluate firms. Several data vendors have provided their own matric of corporate employment practices encompassing compensation,...

Two recent augmentations of standard factor models in the literature enable investors to compute benchmark-adjusted alphas (Angelidis et al., 2013) and peer-group adjusted alphas (Hunter et al., 2015). We show that by and large the funds placed in the top performance quartile using either one of...

In order to investigate the economic performance of business processes, simulations are performed. These simulations determine values of key performance indicators (KPIs ). We sought a valid solution to integrate KPIs in our Process Analysis Studio (PAS). Our investigation aims for a concept...