Appraisal of Mutual Equity Fund Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Panayotis Alexakis () and Ioannis Tsolas
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Panayotis Alexakis: University of Athens, Greece
Ioannis Tsolas: National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Multinational Finance Journal, 2011, vol. 15, issue 3-4, 273-296

Abstract: This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis to measure for the first time the performance of Greek domestic equity mutual funds over four different one-year horizons and for the whole four-year period. In particular, the model used examines whether fund managers employ inputs (i.e. assets, loads, and risk) efficiently to produce output (returns). The results demonstrate that the efficient funds form the smaller part of the examined sample of funds, the average efficiency rises over time, and that the mean-variance efficiency hypothesis holds for the inefficient funds over the whole period. Moreover, the evidence from the identified sources of inefficiency suggests that fund managers should put more emphasis on the management of assets and the specification of front-end and back-end loads.

Keywords: Mutual funds; equity funds; efficiency; data envelopment analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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