Ma Xiyuan

Ma Xiyuan is a Research Fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics under Singapore Management University. Holding a PhD in Finance from Tsinghua University and a Bachelor of Economics from Central University of Finance and Economics, their research focuses on mutual fund dynamics and asset pricing.

• Education: PhD in Finance (Tsinghua University, 2024), BSc in Economics (Central University of Finance and Economics, 2019)

Key research themes include:

• Quantitative analysis of mutual fund investment strategies
• Cross-jurisdictional share turnover determinants
• Application of large language models in fund skill assessment

Recent working papers explore: (1) machine learning approaches to decoding fund manager capabilities, and (2) global variations in market trading activity through empirical modeling.

Email: xiyuanma@smu.edu.sg