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Performance Measurement of Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and Institutional Accounts

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  • Russ Wermers

    (Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland)

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This review describes several important recent advances in the measurement of the performance of actively managed portfolios. For returns-based performance evaluation, we discuss several innovations, such as conditional performance evaluation, Bayesian approaches, and a new multiple-testing approach—the false-discovery rate. For portfolio holdings–based performance evaluation, our discussion ranges from extensions of the standard Daniel, Grinblatt, Titman, and Wermers (DGTW) stock return adjustment procedure to conditional holdings-based approaches. Applications of these approaches in the mutual fund, hedge fund, and institutional account universes are presented.

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  • Russ Wermers, 2011. "Performance Measurement of Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and Institutional Accounts," Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 3(1), pages 537-574, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:anr:refeco:v:3:y:2011:p:537-574
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    Keywords

    portfolio performance; alpha; performance evaluation; performance attribution;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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