Full Description
The vast majority of investors in the capital market do so, at least in part, via mutual funds. In the US market alone, there are currently thousands of mutual funds to choose from. Thus, the task of mutual fund selection is of central importance. It is a notoriously difficult task, because the past return parameters are very noisy estimates of the future parameters. This book presents the state-of-the-art research in this field. It describes recent academic findings and translates them into practical guidelines for mutual fund selection, and will be of interest to researchers alongside professional investors and fund ranking agencies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Criteria for Mutual Fund Selection.- Chapter 3: Investment for Intermediate and Long Horizons.- Chapter 4: Estimating Future Performance - The Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe Ratio.- Chapter 5: Active Versus Passive Investment.- Chapter 6: Target Date Funds, and How to Improve Them.- Chapter 7: The Role of Luck.
