Assessing Degree of Overall Prospect for Merger and Acquisition of Managed Funds: A Relative Performance Perspective
Don U. A. Galagedera,
Jessica Leung,
Farshid Vahid
Abstract:The objective of this research is to analyze the merger and acquisition potential of managed funds as distinct endeavors and evaluate their overall prospects separately. Initially, the pre-merger performance is evaluated employing data envelopment analysis (DEA) under the variable returns to scale assumption. Merged fund performance is evaluated similarly after augmenting the sample with the merged fund. A fund pair is considered a merger prospect when both demonstrate the potential to enhance DEA-efficiency b… Show more
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