Performance persistence in the investment literature was a major area of investigation for both academics and practitioners for more than 2 decades. The results from various U.K open – end mutual funds studies are mixed and there is no enough statistical evidence of performance persistence in...

The existing literature of performance persistence of UK investment trusts is limited. We are going to use a sample of 210 UK investment trusts to test performance persistence in different time periods. Berk and Green (2004) suggests that performance persistence and managerial skill are limited...

This article examines UK investment trusts using a sample of 210 investment trusts from the period 1990 to 2006. The sample is free of survivorship bias. We find evidence of long-term managerial positive persistence. Performance is measured by Jensen's alpha based on regression models such as...

From the standpoint of both the academic researcher and the investment practitioner, it is crucial to be able to identify which factors best capture stock return variation and specifically the discount variation. As a result, there has been a proliferation of research that attempts to identify...

This paper aims at testing empirically the major building blocks that affect the performance of Hedge Funds: incentive fees, management fees, size, age, hurdle rate, high watermark provision and lockup period. The sample is provided from Data Feeder dataset. It is very comprehensive and includes...

In this article, we have tested a linear Gaussian state space model and the kalman filter in testing ARMA(2,3) models of the natural logarithmic monthly market returns of the US 1838 bond debenture closed-end fund. The aim is to estimate expectations that arises from the interaction of...

This book covers the basic principles of mutual fund industry. It aims or helps the readers to distinguish between open-end and closed-end mutual fund. Then, it introduces the reader to the various risk measurement that are used to measure the variability from the average. A review of the...

In this article, we have applied an autoregressive moving average, ARMA(2,2) model of order AR(1), AR(2), MA(1), MA(2) and SMA(12) to test the natural logarithmic monthly market returns of the of the closed – end funds of major investment banks such as Van Kampen income trust, Aberden Asia...

Discount persistence explanation from a behavioural point of view is a new area of research for both academics and practitioners. The interactions of both arbitrageurs and noise traders during the life of the fund will enable us to detect the effect of discount persistence based on an investor...

The bubble theory is controversial to the efficient market hypothesis. According to the efficient market hypothesis there is no asset mispricing. All information is incorporated into the asset prices and there are no deviations from the fundamental value. The NAV price of the closed-end funds...