Using a survivorship and selection bias free database of actively managed private Turkish Pension funds we show that most managers are not able to provide performance above and beyond what could be earned by passive indexing. At its simplest, funds with self-declared benchmarks fail to beat them...

This paper tests whether the conditional CAPM can explain size, book-to-market, momentum and illiquidity effects utilizing data from the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). The conditional CAPM mostly fails for these standard asset pricing anomalies with statistically significant risk-adjusted...