Abstract:We deal with the problem of how to evaluate the performance of an investment (mutual) fund, over a past period. We assume a widely assumed attitude that an investment fund is said to have performed well if its unit price have been rising faster than its benchmark during a period of growth, and has been falling slower than its benchmark during the period of decline. We develop a novel, flexible and human consistent comparison method that operates on the comparison of trends (segments) extracted from the times s… Show more
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