Portfolio Return, Risk and Market Timing: A Non-Parametric Approach
Published: 2015
Author(s) Name: Joyjit Dhar, Ram Pratap Sinha |
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Abstract
The present study extends the portfolio evaluation framework provided by Sharpe (1964) and Treynor (1965) by including the parameter of market timing with the help of a non-parametric framework. Data envelopment analysis has been used in the present exercise to evaluate the performance 79 mutual funds
schemes operating in India for three different phases using two different models. Estimation of technical efficiency on the basis of both the models suggests that period 2 performance is substantially divergent from period 1 and 3. Also, higher moments framework gives a better measure of performance as it accounts not only the standard risk measure but also for skewness and kurtosis characteristics of returns.
Keywords: Mutual Funds, Market Timing, Higher Moments, Data Envelopment Analysis
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