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Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds in Europe: Beta-Performance Ratio

Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds in Europe: Beta-Performance Ratio

Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves, Jeremias Amado Conceição, Vargas Bonfim Montenegro
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799866435|ISBN10: 1799866432|EISBN13: 9781799866442
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6643-5.ch021
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Neves, Maria Elisabete Duarte, et al. "Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds in Europe: Beta-Performance Ratio." Handbook of Research on Financial Management During Economic Downturn and Recovery, edited by Nuno Miguel Teixeira and Inês Lisboa, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 374-388. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6643-5.ch021

APA

Neves, M. E., Conceição, J. A., & Montenegro, V. B. (2021). Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds in Europe: Beta-Performance Ratio. In N. Teixeira & I. Lisboa (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Financial Management During Economic Downturn and Recovery (pp. 374-388). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6643-5.ch021

Chicago

Neves, Maria Elisabete Duarte, Jeremias Amado Conceição, and Vargas Bonfim Montenegro. "Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds in Europe: Beta-Performance Ratio." In Handbook of Research on Financial Management During Economic Downturn and Recovery, edited by Nuno Miguel Teixeira and Inês Lisboa, 374-388. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6643-5.ch021

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Abstract

In this study, the authors analyzed the performance of the exchange traded funds (ETFs) of the European iShares family, using risk-adjusted performance measures: Sharpe index, Treynor index, Sortino index, and Jensen's alpha. They also checked the beta-performance ratio and conjectured that ETFs with the highest betas are the ones that perform best. From the results obtained, they conclude that all ETFs had an average return lower than that of the respective benchmark. Using the Sharpe index, they found that no ETF performed better than its benchmark. As for the Treynor index, two ETFs, namely Belgium and Switzerland, performed better than the respective benchmark. As with the Sharpe index, for the Sortino index, no ETF exceeded its benchmark. As for the beta-performance relationship, the results indicated the existence of the low-risk anomaly.

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