Asset Management and The Case of Turkey: Risk Adjusted Performance Evaluation of Turkish Mutual and Pension Funds

The asset management industry is one of the essential sources of economic growthin a country since it functions as an intermediary between savings and investments.The asset management industry is also important for financial markets to ensure newfunds and it helps investors to achieve their investment goals. Therefore, the aim ofthis study is to analyze the fund management industry in an emerging market. In thisbook, we first reviewed the fund performance measurement ratios and then evaluatedthese performance measures of mutual and pension funds in Turkey between2010 and 2019 to determine whether the funds generate alphas (excess returns). Therisk-adjusted performance measures (Sharpe, Treynor, Information, Jensen’s alpha,Sortino, and Omega ratios) were calculated to see if the funds generated excessrisk-adjusted returns during the analyzed period.