3rd Quarter (2012)

Moshe Levy and Richard Roll The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has far-reaching practical implications for both investors and corporate managers. The model implies that the market portfolio is mean-variance efficient, and thus advocates passive investment. It also provides the most widely used measure of risk, beta, which is used to calculate the cost of… Read more

Russell J. Fuller, Bing Han and Yining Tung Capital Market Theory assumes that the ex ante market portfolio (which is cap-weighted) lies on the (ex ante) efficient frontier. However, we show that ex ante cap-weighted portfolios will always be interior portfolios relative to the end-of-investment-period ex post efficient frontier. This is due to the arrival… Read more

Jose Menchero and Andrei Morozov The relative strength of industries versus countries is of great practical interest for global equity investors. In this article, we investigate the relative strength of these effects in the global equity markets over the sample period 1994-2010. In particular, we examine three market segments: (a) the world market, (b) emerging… Read more

Daniel Bradley and Lei Wedge We examine the costs to higher education employees investing in optional retirement plans (ORP). We find vast differences across states in terms of the number of providers, number of funds offered per provider, and fees. We find the same provider offering the same fund oftentimes charges significantly different fees across… Read more

Iuliana Ismailescu and Matthew Morey In the wake of the market timing and late trading mutual fund scandals, many mutual funds adopted redemption fees to limit market timing. In this paper we investigate the impact of redemption fees on the risk-adjusted performance of U.S. based international equity funds, the very funds that many market timers… Read more