This paper proposes a risk scoring model to assess the performance of 27 US companies listed online by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and comparing with the traditional financial measure Return on Equity (ROE). The DEA evaluation process involves two processes: (1) computation of operating efficiency and effectiveness to measure a company’s operating performance, and (2) measurement o...

Traditional risk-adjusted performance measures, such as the Sharpe ratio, the Treynor index or Jensen’s alpha, based on the mean-variance framework, are widely used to rank mutual funds. However, performance measures that consider risk by taking into account only losses, such as Value-at-Risk (VaR), would be more appropriate. Standard VaR assumes that returns are normally distributed, though th...

Multifactor funds, which offer risk factor diversification, have several appealing characteristics. They enable investing in factors, has become a typical way to enhance portfolio’s long-term risk-adjusted return; they provide exposure more than one factor, enables diversification; and these benefits neatly packaged product. What’s not like? Their performance. Although their track record is lim...

This study tests the hypothesis that market value added (MVA) is more highly associated with stock return (SR) than traditional performance measures. The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the relative and incremental information content of MVA and traditional performance measures, namely, net income (NI), net operational profit after tax (NOPAT), and earning per shares (...

The fundamental equation of asset pricing states that the expected timeand risk-adjusted cumulative return on any asset equals one at all horizons. This paper shows that for a typical asset, the realized timeand risk-adjusted cumulative return tends to zero with probability one. Just two assumptions are required: limited liability and no arbitrage. This apparent paradox is resolved by a further...