• DocumentCode
    1696492
  • Title

    Performance appraisal of international equity mutual funds

  • Author

    Ayadi, Mohamed A. ; Jedidi, Helmi ; Kryzanowski, Lawrence

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Finance, Oper., & Inf. Syst., Brock Univ., St. Catharines, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    This study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the performance of a large sample of 1,471 Canadian international equity mutual funds over the period 1988-2008. We find that the performance statistics are sensitive to the selected benchmark model and conditional specification. Fund selectivity underperformance is partially explained by higher expenses. Bootstrap tests reveal a substantial number of significantly skilled funds in the right tail of the cross-sectional distribution.
  • Keywords
    finance; statistical analysis; Canadian international equity mutual funds; bootstrap tests; performance statistics; Benchmark testing; Indexes; Instruments; Investment; Mutual funds; Portfolios; Security; Performance measurement; bootstrap; conditioning; international and global funds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Web Applications and Networking (WSWAN), 2015 2nd World Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sousse
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8171-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSWAN.2015.7210311
  • Filename
    7210311