The main purpose of the study is to reveal how accurate Sharpe's style analysis model is in the context of the analysis of funds of hedge funds. Therefore, we analyse the influence of the three parameters of a style analysis model, which are defined by the user: the number of indices which are...

Portfolio selection has been in the focus of financial research for at least thirty years. With a hand-collected data set containing information about the portfolio structure of private and institutional investors our paper gives a brief literature review and sheds light on the home bias effect...

We examine the relation between households' wealth and relative risk aversion (RRA) in two different frameworks: the Behavioral Portfolio Theory (BPT) and Merton's (1969) consumption and portfolio choice model (CPCM). We apply the BPT to field data for the first time and show that the BPT...

Purpose: Retail investors use information provided by mutual fund rating agencies to make investment decisions. This paper examines whether the ratings provide useful information to retail investors by analyzing the rating migration and closure risk of mutual funds that received Morningstar's...