Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide the modified measures of risk-adjusted performance evaluation of Malaysian mutual funds using the downside risk concepts, and promote the ability of managers and investors in making logical decisions under the market asymmetry condition....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an attempt to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of international mutual funds using the risk statistic generated by the mean absolute deviation (MAD) and promote the ability of portfolio managers and investors to make the logical decisions...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of the management styles of Malaysian mutual funds using nine modified performance evaluation measures generated by the maximum drawdown risk measure (M-DRM) based on the modern portfolio theory. The purpose is to report the...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the risk‐adjusted performance of the management styles of Malaysian mutual funds using nine modified performance evaluation measures generated by the maximum drawdown risk measure (M‐DRM) based on the modern portfolio theory. The purpose is to report...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the risk‐adjusted performance of Malaysian mutual funds using optimized drawdown risk measures (ODRMs) based on modern portfolio theory, and to represent the results in a manner which is easily understood by average investors and portfolio managers....