The traditional approach of portfolio benchmarking was developed by Markowitz (1952) with his Mean-Variance (M-V) model. The emergence of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), however, led to the introduction of indices provided by Sharpe (1966), Treynor (1965) and Jensen (1968). Nevertheless,...

Managerial ability plays a vital role in the performance of business enterprises; however, such efforts are not directly observable. This study estimates managerial ability within the insurance sector of the economy based on two data sets from two different Asian countries. We estimate...