The impact of carbon neutrality on the investment performance: Evidence from the equity mutual funds in BRICS

X Ji, Y Zhang, N Mirza, M Umar, SKA Rizvi - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The promotion of carbon-neutral investments is among the primary constituents of
developing a carbon-neutral economy. This is even more important for emerging economies …

Determinants of defaults on P2P lending platforms in China

M Gao, J Yen, M Liu - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
Chinese P2P lending platforms have an astonishing default rate of 87.2% based on data
available in 2019, which indicates the seriousness of the problem this industry faces …

Hedge fund holdings and stock market efficiency

C Cao, B Liang, AW Lo… - The Review of Asset …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We study the relation between hedge fund equity holdings and measures of informational
efficiency of stock prices derived from intraday transactions as well as daily data. Our …

Does socially responsible mutual fund performance vary over the business cycle? New insights on the effect of idiosyncratic SR features

JC Matallín‐Sáez, A Soler‐Domínguez… - Business Ethics: A …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyses the performance and market timing of US socially responsible (SR)
mutual funds in relation to business cycle regime shifts and different grouping criteria …

Do mutual fund investors overweight the probability of extreme payoffs in the return distribution?

F Akbas, E Genc - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020 - cambridge.org
We investigate the role of extreme positive payoffs in the distribution of monthly fund returns
in investors' mutual fund preferences. We document a positive and significant relationship …

Can investors time their exposure to private equity?

G Brown, R Harris, W Hu, T Jenkinson… - Journal of Financial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Private equity performance, both for buyouts and venture capital, has been highly cyclical:
periods of high fundraising have been followed by periods of low performance. Despite this …

Riding the geopolitical storm or dodging bullets: Geopolitical risk timing of mutual funds

J Liu, Z Chen, G Lin, Y Zhu - Global Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the mutual fund timing of geopolitical risk and corresponding
economic consequences based on open-end active stock funds data in China from January …

Time-varying fund manager skills of socially responsible investing (SRI) funds in developed and emerging markets

B Jitmaneeroj - Research in International Business and Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine stock selectivity and timing abilities in the market-wide return, volatility and
liquidity of SRI fund managers. We find that multi-dimensional fund manager skills are time …

Mutual fund managers' timing abilities

L Liao, X Zhang, Y Zhang - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper examines Chinese mutual fund managers' abilities to time market, market
volatility, and market-wide liquidity. Using a sample of Chinese mutual funds, we employ …

Short-term volatility timing: A cross-country study

M Vidal, J Vidal-García, S Boubaker… - Annals of Operations …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we examine how mutual fund managers behave to fluctuations in market
volatility. We use a sample of daily return from countries around the world to evaluate how …