This paper examines managerial skill of U.S. equity mutual funds in the context of both abnormal return and risk. We recognize the role of fund life cycle and use different evaluation horizons to control for fund age and the overall state of the market. We find that a small percentage of equity...

My dissertation consists of three chapters covering mutual fund terminations, survivorship bias, and smart money effect, respectively. The first chapter examines domestic equity fund terminations through the determinants of the hazard function. It finds that the lagged 3-month return, the...