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| Author | : Ao Wang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Mutual funds |
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This dissertation consists of two essays that study mutual fund managerial skills and performance.Understanding whether mutual funds have skills is important as it could help investors make investment decision. My fist essay studies whether and how fund size affects managers' risk-taking behavior in the setting of fund mergers. I test the relation between fund size and risk-shifting. The main findings are as follows. First, acquiring fund managers' risk-taking declines as size increases resulting from mergers. The decline in risk-taking remains significant after controlling for fund characteristics, diversification effect, and portfolio's systematic risk exposure that can be correlated with managers' investment choices. Second, liquidity is a driving factor for the negative impact of size on managers' risk-taking. Third, I decompose fund size into two components based on either liquidity or risk-taking and examine which component(s) correlate with fund performance. I document that risk-taking is, beyond liquidity, another underlying mechanism for decreasing returns to scale.In the second essay, I study the timing ability of mutual funds in different sentiment periods. I first use DGTW (1997) style timing measure (CT) to examine if mutual funds perform better in high sentiment periods when stock mispricing is enlarged, providing more trading opportunities for mutual funds. Results show that mutual funds have better style timing ability in high sentiment than in low sentiment. The result is robust when I use alternative sentiment measures and different model specifications. Moreover, the style timing ability in high sentiment periods is more pronounced for less expensive funds with lower turnover and active shares. Then I investigate the source of this timing ability using 9 well-known stock return anomalies. I construct an anomaly timing measure (AT) using each of the 9 individual anomalies as well as the composite anomaly. AT is developed to detect whether fund managers could successfully time a certain anomaly. I find that mutual funds have better anomaly timing ability in composite anomaly and 4 contrarian anomalies which are investment-to-assets, asset growth, composite equity issue and net operating assets. Furthermore, I provide evidence that mutual funds with better timing abilities could outperform overall.
| Author | : Jongwan Bae |
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| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2014 |
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| ISBN | : 9781321093599 |
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I conduct two studies that investigate the behavioral characteristics of mutual fund managers. First study, The Performance of Mutual Funds on Private Information, looks at the dimension of investment skills of fund managers. The investment skills of mutual fund managers can be assessed by their ability to generate private information. In this study, by investigating the simultaneous actions of fund managers and corporate managers, we estimate how much the actions of fund managers can be attributed to private information. Using the information of insiders' transactions as a proxy for the managers' private information, our performance measure, PS (Private Shares), captures variations in skills among fund managers, suggesting that the funds with higher PS outperform the funds with lower PS. The finding that PS is positively related to future fund performance is consistent with our conjecture that fund managers who actively trade on private information have better managerial skills than the ones that do not trade on private information. In the second study, Impact of Religious Belief on Asset Management Industry, we investigate the effects of religion on the investing behavior of fund managers. We propose a measure of corporate social responsibility propensity (CSRP) by fund managers that captures the level of a manager's tendency to invest in firms that engage in socially responsible activities. Grounded in the basis of ethics and morality, religious belief is shown to have a positive impact on a fund manager's investment in firms with good corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. The positive association between religiosity and CSRP is particularly strong in the sample of non-institutional funds. On the performance aspect, we find that funds in the highly religious region with a higher propensity to invest in socially responsible firms tend to exhibit future performance deterioration. Our results suggest that local religiosity has a significant impact on the investing behavior of fund managers.
| Author | : Pramodkumar Yadav |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Finance |
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The first essay examines whether fund flows of mutual fund family employees are smart. Using hand-collected data on investment of fund family employees, I show that employee flows predict fund performance up to two years. Moreover, employee flows lead flows of other investors, but not vice versa, further indicating that employee flows are smart. The predictive power of employee flows is stronger when fund family employees are located close to fund managers, pointing to employees exploiting their proximity to managers to learn about the managers' skill or effort. The results do not appear to be driven by ownership changes of portfolio managers themselves, family cross-subsidization efforts, plan design, or employee sophistication.The second essay (with Daniel Dorn) examines psychological cost of team structure in mutual fund industry. We show that team-managed mutual funds have a greater propensity to sell winners and hold losers than solo funds. This propensity is costly as winners sold outperform losers held by 56bp during the next quarter relative to stocks with similar size, book-to-market, and momentum characteristics. Disposition effects are strongest when positions are initiated by a subset of the team who thus bears special responsibility. In contrast, there is no disposition effect when positions are initiated by all team members. This suggests that the difficulty of admitting mistakes to peers (vanity), rather than conformity to in-group pressures (groupthink), poses a costly challenge for teams.
| Author | : Leng Ling |
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| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Mutual funds |
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Essay 1. Does mutual fund window-dressing promote fund flows?--I investigate the effectiveness of window-dressing as a potential strategy to be used by mutual fund managers to promote fund flows. Using a rank gap measure as a proxy for the likelihood that window-dressing has occurred, I find that fund investors as whole punish those managers who are suspected to have engaged in window-dressing. That is, I find a negative relation between the window-dressing measure and net fund flows in subsequent quarters after controlling for fund performance, size, expense ratio, and other pertinent characteristics. I also find that window-dressing leads to higher trading activities and lower fund performance. Essay 2. A life cycle analysis of performance and growth in U.S. mutual funds--I propose a five-stage growth model to describe the life cycle evolution of mutual funds and show that mutual funds exhibit distinctive performance, size, expense ratios, asset turnover, and other pertinent characteristics through stages of incubation, high-growth, low-growth, maturity, and decline. I also investigate the viability of managerial strategies to affect a fund's life cycle evolution and find that changing a declining fund's investment objective is effective in rejuvenating asset growth and thus repositioning the fund to younger life cycle stages. However, the strategy of adding portfolio managers appears to have no such rejuvenation effect.
| Author | : Raisa Velthuis |
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| Release | : 2016 |
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This dissertation contains two chapters on the topic of fund management. The first chapter explores an important question in hedge fund management on whether hedge funds experience decreasing returns to scale, as hedge fund managers often pursue arbitrage opportunities which are limited and short-lived. Extant literature has presented evidence of decreasing returns to scale at the hedge fund level. Employing a newly developed, unbiased estimation method based on recursive demeaning, I find no evidence of decreasing returns to scale at the hedge fund level. However, I do find evidence that hedge fund returns are decreasing in hedge fund industry size. Further tests suggest that inter-hedge fund competition drives this result. Additionally, I examine the evolution of raw managerial skill of hedge funds over time and find that fund performance deteriorates as funds grow older, but this does not take away from the detrimental effects on performance due to the industry becoming more competitive.The second chapter is on the subject of style drift in mutual fund management and documents that small-cap mutual funds allocate on average 27% of their portfolio to mid- and large-cap stocks. I find that larger and older small-cap funds are more likely to hold mid- and large-cap stocks, consistent with funds straying from their objective over time. Funds that invest heavily in mid- and large-cap stocks expose their investors to unanticipated risks but investors do not experience higher abnormal returns or performance persistence overall. These funds did outperform their peers by 3% annually in the most recent period between January 2003 and March 2010.
| Author | : Andrew A. Lynch |
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| Total Pages | : 91 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Electronic Dissertations |
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In these two essays, I examine the relation between mutual fund characteristics and fund performance. In the first essay, I test the impact of liquidity and liquidity risk on mutual fund returns. I find that equity funds with the most illiquid holdings outperform those with the most liquid holdings by as much as 4.40 percent annually. Funds with high liquidity beta only marginally outperform those with low liquidity beta on average. However, this outperformance is significantly stronger after excluding periods of extreme market illiquidity. Testing the liquidity and liquidity risk effects jointly reveals that both independently positively influence fund returns. In the second essay, I test the relation between fund fees and fund performance. Theory suggests that mutual fund fees should be positively related to before-fee returns (Berk and Green (2004)), while recent empirical work documents a negative relation (Gil-Bazo and Ruiz-Verdu (2009)). I find that the previously identified negative relation is not robust to alternative empirical specifications. Portfolio sorting and regression analysis with controls for fund characteristics find a positive relation between before-fee returns and expense ratios. I also find a positive relation between before-fee returns and management fees, the fee used to compensate fund managers. Extending the analysis to proxies for manager skill, I find a positive relation between fees and both trading skill and active share of holdings.
| Author | : Meifen Qian |
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| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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The on-going debate over whether fund managers have skills and whether those skills are short-lived is still inconclusive. Using the performance measure that can't be manipulated with respect to the underlying distribution, time variation, nor estimation error, (the manipulation-proof performance measure (MPPM, Goetzmann et al. (2007)), we rank all U.S. domestic equity mutual funds from 1980 to 2013 on a quarterly basis and analyze their portfolio holdings to generate few insights. First, fund managers in the higher ranked MPPM deciles persistently outperform lower ranked managers by posting higher gross and net fund returns, higher holding-based returns, and generating positive return gap. Second, the characteristic of the holdings indicates higher ranked fund managers would hold younger, smaller, growth, and particularly stocks with lower liquidity and higher information asymmetry. Based on the five-factor (Fama and French (2014)) analysis, our results show that higher ranked managers could generate 15 to 29 basis points while lower ranked managers would loss 20 to 26 basis points on their risk-adjusted ex-post monthly holding returns (alphas) based on their ex-ante constructed holdings. Fourth, the differences on managers of the highest rank and the lowest rank result in monthly risk-adjusted returns (alphas) up to 49 to 52 basis points. Even though the managerial skills are identified at the higher ranked managers, the persistent and the predictability of their superior holding-based returns and fund returns are merely limited to up to six months. We conclude that even though higher ranked managers have better stock picking skills, their net fund returns are not large enough to offset their expenses to warrant positive alphas.
| Author | : Peter Lückoff |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 604 |
| Release | : 2011-01-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3834927805 |
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Peter Lückoff investigates why fund flows and manager changes act as equilibrium mechanisms and drive the performance of both previously outperforming and previously underperforming funds back to average levels.
| Author | : Lubomira Ivanova |
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| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2005 |
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In the first chapter of my dissertation I present a survey of the literature on mutual fund performance. The first section of chapter one discusses two approaches to portfolio evaluation. The returns-based approach evaluates the net portfolio returns of the funds. The second, holdings-based approach, directly measures the stock-picking talent of mutual fund managers by focusing on manager's equity holdings. The second section of chapter one presents the literature on flows of funds and its relationship to portfolio evaluation.
| Author | : Meifen Qian |
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| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2014 |
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Download On Market Timing, Stock Picking, and Managerial Skills of Mutual Fund Managers with Manipulation-Proof Performance Measure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The on-going debate over whether fund managers have skills and whether those skills are short-lived is still inconclusive. Using the performance measure that can't be manipulated with respect to the underlying distribution, time variation, nor estimation error, (the manipulation-proof performance measure (MPPM, Goetzmann et al. (2007)), we rank all U.S. domestic equity mutual funds from 1980 to 2012 on a quarterly basis and analyze their portfolio holding to contribute to the literature in two folds. First, managers ranked highest on MPPM in the current quarter earn largest fee-adjusted fund returns in the following quarter. Those managers hold younger, smaller, lower book-to-market, and momentum stocks. Second, taking long positions of the addition and short positions of the removal from their quarterly holdings from the highest ranked managers would outperform the lowest ranked managers by 12 basis points at the following quarter. Even though higher ranked managers have better stock picking skills, their fund returns are not large enough to offset their frequent transactions and higher expenses to insure positive alphas.
