In their seminal paper on bond fund performance, Blake, Elton and Gruber (1993) state that survivorship bias is unimportant for this market segment. Many bond fund studies have since been published without treating survivorship bias despite the dramatic changes in the market over the last 20...

Despite the nonlinearity in the relation between interest rate risk and expected return, bond fund performance regressions usually lever expected benchmark returnslinearly to the fund’srisk. This causes systematic miscalculations of expected passive style returns and active alphas. I propose a...

Performance regressions lever expected benchmark returns linearly to the risk exposures of the fund. The interest rate (IR) risk premium, however, usually follows a decreasingly upward-sloping yield curve, characterizing the nonlinearity between expected return and IR risk exposure, e.g....

We are the first to analyze bond mutual funds' permission and use of complex investment practices like derivatives, restricted securities and securities lending. Based on unique regulatory information from the SEC's N-SAR filings, we show that most complex investments do not affect fund...

Despite the nonlinearity in the relation between interest rate risk and expected return, bond fund performance regressions usually lever expected benchmark returnslinearly to the fund’srisk. This causes systematic miscalculations of expected passive style returns and active alphas. I propose a...

Bond fund performance regressions usually lever expected benchmark returns linearly to the fund’s risk exposure. The relation of expected return and interest rate risk is, however, nonlinear. This leads to miscalculations of expected passive fund returns and active performance. I propose a...

This paper studies the empirical early exercise behavior of Individual Investors in non-tradable putable bonds. Analyzing circa 31 million holding and exercise decisions of more than 220,000 Individual Investors over 13 years, our major findings are: (i) Individual Investors use their early...

This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...