This paper aims to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of Malaysian mutual funds using the modified performance evaluation ratios by the drawdown risk measure (DRM) based on modern portfolio theory, and to represent the results in a manner which is easily understood by the average investors...

Due to the numerous studies of asymmetric portfolio returns, asymmetric risk measures have widely been used in risk management with extensive uses on the methodology of n-degree lower partial moment (LPM). Unlike the initial studies, we use the risk measure of n-degree maximum drawdown, which is...