Frontier-based vs. traditional mutual fund ratings: A first backtesting analysis

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Brandouy, Olivier | Kerstens, Kristiaan | Woestyne, Ignace Van,

Edité par HAL CCSD ; Elsevier

International audience. We explore the potential benefits of a series of existing and new non-parametric convex and non-convex frontier-based fund rating models to summarize the information contained in the moments of the mutual fund price series. Limiting ourselves to the traditional mean-variance portfolio setting, we test in a simple backtesting setup whether these efficiency measures fare any better than more traditional financial performance measures in selecting promising investment opportunities. The evidence points to a remarkable superior performance of these frontier models compared to most, but not all traditional financial performance measures.

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