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Book Synopsis Characteristics of Mutual Funds with Extreme Performance by : Jason P. Berkowitz
Download or read book Characteristics of Mutual Funds with Extreme Performance written by Jason P. Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our paper focuses on mutual fund characteristics associated with periods of extreme performance. We find funds with either positive (hot-hand) or negative (icy-hand) persistence tend to have portfolio similarities consistent with riskier positions: compared to no-streak funds they hold less stocks and invest more in top 10 holdings. Also both hot-hand and icy-hand funds have significantly higher turnover than benchmark funds. At the same time, icy-hand (hot-hand) funds tend to have larger (smaller) management teams, and are less (more) likely to be managed by one manager. Finally, we do not observe many funds changing their management teams either before or after the streak of extreme performance. That is neither find we evidence that the beginning of extreme performance is associated with changes in management, nor that it causes changes in management.
Book Synopsis Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds by : Dunhong Jin
Download or read book Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds written by Dunhong Jin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to prevent runs on open-end mutual funds? In recent years, markets have observed an innovation that changed the way open-end funds are priced. Alternative pricing rules (known as swing pricing) adjust funds’ net asset values to pass on funds’ trading costs to transacting shareholders. Using unique data on investor transactions in U.K. corporate bond funds, we show that swing pricing eliminates the first-mover advantage arising from the traditional pricing rule and significantly reduces redemptions during stress periods. The positive impact of alternative pricing rules on fund flows reverses in calm periods when costs associated with higher tracking error dominate the pricing effect.
Book Synopsis Performance-related Characteristics of Mutual Funds by : James David Philpot
Download or read book Performance-related Characteristics of Mutual Funds written by James David Philpot and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Investment Criteria for Mutual Fund Selection by : Jan Harkopf
Download or read book Investment Criteria for Mutual Fund Selection written by Jan Harkopf and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of mutual funds for individual investors has increased in recent decades. This becomes apparent when looking at the increased share of households owning mutual funds. These mutual fund investors usually want to receive a return which is above or at least close to the mutual fund’s benchmark. Consequently, investors want to invest in those funds which will show these patterns in the future. Some of these mutual funds receive much attention, since they generate extraordinary high performance. But the question that remains is whether it is possible to predict such performance before funds exhibit such outstanding performance. In the past, mutual fund investors focused extensively on performance or performance linked patterns, like the Morningstar star rating, and thus chased past performance. This seems surprising since performance persists only over a short time and is more persistent to weak mutual funds (1 and 2 star rated) than well performing mutual funds. Thus, chasing past performances seems to be a rather inferior strategy. Therefore, investors should try to identify alternative tools showing a high correlation to future mutual fund performance. In this book, mutual funds are analysed, especially open-end mutual funds and actively managed mutual funds. The main focus is on what purpose and usefulness active investments have and whether performance is persistent and what the determinants of mutual fund flows are. Moreover, some alternative measures will be introduced by explaining which attributes or methods should be used and avoided when selecting mutual funds.
Book Synopsis Performance and Characteristics of Actively Managed Retail Mutual Funds with Diverse Expense Ratios by : John A. Haslem
Download or read book Performance and Characteristics of Actively Managed Retail Mutual Funds with Diverse Expense Ratios written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, we provide extensive evidence on the performance and characteristics of 1,779 U.S. domestic, actively managed retail equity mutual funds. We find that expense ratios differ widely among Morningstar categories. Overall, our results indicate that funds with low expense ratios outperform those with higher expense ratios. An implication of these findings is that retail investors generally could gain insight into fund expenses and performance prospects relative to peers if research services such as Morningstar, Lipper, and Value Line included each fund's expense ratio standard deviation class in their basic suite of data items.Consistent with previous studies, we find strong evidence that the average actively managed mutual fund fails to outperform its benchmark after expenses. Furthermore, the probability of a fund achieving a positive risk-adjusted return increases as its expense ratio decreases. Similar findings in the past have lead many experts to conclude that investors would be better off in low-cost passively managed index funds. Our results show that expenses must be at least one and perhaps two standard deviations below the peer-group mean for investors to have close to a 50-50 chance of beating a relevant benchmark.We also examine mutual fund characteristics partitioned by expense ratio class. Compared with funds in high and very high expense ratio classes, our major results show that those in low or very low expense ratio classes have significantly lower front-end and deferred loads, 12b-1 fees, management fees, and turnover. An implication of this evidence is that expense conscious investors should look carefully at these fund characteristics before investing.Our study provides evidence that supports links between mutual fund performance and fund attributes. Based on our regression analysis, we find evidence suggesting that larger equity funds tend to outperform smaller equity funds, which may reflect economies of scale. We find a significant negative relation between performance and loads (especially front-end loads), turnover, and beta (specifically using three-year performance measures). In addition, our results indicate no significant relation between performance and 12b-1 fees. We find evidence of statistically significant but mixed performance results for beta, cash, and dividend yields. In general, investors should be aware of these relations before investing.
Book Synopsis A Study of Characteristics Related to the Performance of Mutual Funds by : Thomas D. Ellis
Download or read book A Study of Characteristics Related to the Performance of Mutual Funds written by Thomas D. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performance and Mutual Fund Characteristics by : Mark Grinblatt
Download or read book Performance and Mutual Fund Characteristics written by Mark Grinblatt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Main Characteristics of Hedge Funds by : Maximilian Wegener
Download or read book The Main Characteristics of Hedge Funds written by Maximilian Wegener and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 8.0, Maastricht University, course: Investment analysis and portfolio management, language: English, abstract: This paper is based on “The Common Fund Hedge Fund Portfolio” case from the Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School, 1996). The data provided are taken from it. It aims to support David Storrs, CEO of the Common Fund Company, decision if and how to include a hedge fund into the overall portfolio. The Common Funds has more than $17 billion assets under management for more than 1,000 educational institutions. Storrs considers to establishing a fund of funds, which he can offer his clients as a means of diversification. A hedge fund is an alternative, unregulated investment vehicle that can take long as well as short positions, use high leverage and write options or futures. The central question asks how Storrs should allocate different hedge funds in the funds of funds portfolio, taking into consideration the legal, economic and marketing issues, beside performance and volatility. The first section will touch upon the legal, economic and marketing issues of hedge funds with regard to the decision to take by Storrs. The second section is going to investigate the proposed allocation of assets and reconsiders the asset allocation. Thereby not only quantitative measures are taken into account, but also qualitative factors. Finally, an advice is given on how Storrs should allocate the portfolio with regard to the circumstances of the Common Fund Company....
Book Synopsis Excessive Mutual Fund Expenses Also Mean Higher Risk and Worse Performance by : John A. Haslem
Download or read book Excessive Mutual Fund Expenses Also Mean Higher Risk and Worse Performance written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not enough to say that particular mutual funds have very excessive and most excessive expense ratios. In addition, these high cost funds are associated with negative portfolio characteristics that include more risky and less diversified portfolios, higher trading costs and lower earnings. Further, these high cost funds are associated with performance attributes that include lower risk/return performance based on three measures and lower total returns over two time periods.The complete word, then, is that mutual funds with high expense ratios - whether two or three standard deviations above the mean of their Morningstar category are further associated with both negative portfolio characteristics and performance attributes.
Book Synopsis Captured Money? Differences in the Performance Characteristics of Retail and Institutional Mutual Funds by : Jason J. Karceski
Download or read book Captured Money? Differences in the Performance Characteristics of Retail and Institutional Mutual Funds written by Jason J. Karceski and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, a number of mutual funds have emerged that cater exclusively to institutional investors, i.e. pension funds, trusts and corporate benefit plans. Information on the performance and flows into institutional mutual funds provides a unique opportunity to compare the factors influencing investment decisions of institutional investors to those of individual retail investors. We find that despite significantly lower expenses, on average institutional funds do not outperform retail funds. In addition, investors in institutional funds do not chase returns the same way that retail customers do. One explanation for the lack of any flow performance relationship is that some investors in these funds do not closely monitor the investment decisions made on their behalf by trustees and other institutional money managers. We refer to this as the capture hypothesis. To test the capture hypothesis we split institutional funds based on investor clientele and minimum investment requirements (a proxy for the costs of monitoring). Consistent with the capture hypothesis, we find institutional funds with relatively low investment requirements and funds with retail mates perform worse than other institutional funds both before and after adjusting for risk and expenses. Moreover, while cash flows into institutional funds are less sensitive to fund performance than are flows into retail funds, flows into institutional funds with high investment requirements are significantly more sensitive to risk-adjusted measures of performance than flows into retail funds. This suggests that some institutional investors focus on different performance criteria than retail investors.
Book Synopsis Performance Characteristics of Individual vs. Team Managed Mutual Funds by : Richard T. Bliss
Download or read book Performance Characteristics of Individual vs. Team Managed Mutual Funds written by Richard T. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fields of psychology and evolution, there is a large body of theory and evidence on how individual behavior differs from group behavior, particularly for performance and risk-taking activities. Even so, relatively little attention has been devoted to this topic for research on managed portfolios, though over 50% of mutual funds are managed by a team. This study is an empirical examination of whether funds managed by individuals perform differently than funds managed by teams. Using a sample of about three thousand equity mutual funds over a twelve-year horizon, we find that though funds managed by teams has grown by seven times the rate of funds managed by individuals, there is no significant difference in performance on a risk-adjusted basis. However, funds managed by teams are significantly less risky. In addition to differences in turnover in many fund categories, the total cost of owning a team-managed mutual fund is nearly fifty basis points lower per year than a mutual fund managed by an individual, on average.
Book Synopsis S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds by : John A. Haslem
Download or read book S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For investor and institutional class index mutual funds that track the S&P 500 Index, there are just 25 funds with statistically low expense ratios (management fee findings are found above). However, there are only five index funds - all investor class - with statistically very high and extremely high expense ratios. Thus, these results contain both bad and good news for investors. Unfortunately, the complete story of high expense ratios for S&P 500Index funds finds more bad news. The Sharpe ratio, Jensen's alpha, annualized total return, Morningstar Star ratings, and average net assets are all statistically, negatively correlated with index funds with statistically high expense ratios. Further, portfolio turnover and 12b-1 fees are statistically, positively correlated with index funds with statistically high expense ratios.
Book Synopsis Performance and Characteristics of Actively Managed Institutional Equity Mutual Funds by : H. Kent Baker
Download or read book Performance and Characteristics of Actively Managed Institutional Equity Mutual Funds written by H. Kent Baker and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, we provide extensive evidence on the performance characteristics of 1,118 U.S. domestic, actively managed institutional equity mutual funds. We measure performance using such measures as three-year Sharpe ratios, Jensen's alphas, and Miller's active alphas as well as annualized Russell Index-adjusted returns over multiple periods (1, 3, 5, 10, 15 years). We relate performance to fund attributes including expense ratio class, net assets, 12b-1 fees dummy, turnover ratio, beta, cash, and dividend yield.We analyze the disparity of expense ratios of actively managed institutional equity mutual funds and find that expense ratios differ widely among Morningstar categories. Consistent with previous mutual fund studies, we find strong evidence that the average actively managed institutional equity mutual fund cannot beat a representative benchmark after expenses.
Book Synopsis Performance and Characteristics of Retail S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds by : John A. Haslem
Download or read book Performance and Characteristics of Retail S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate the performance and attributes of 136 retail mutual funds tracking the Samp;P 500 Index across diverse expense ratio classes. Our performance measures are the Sharpe ratio, Jensen's alpha, and annualized total returns. Attributes analyzed for their relation to expense ratios include front-end loads, deferred charges, 12b-1 fees, fund size, fund age, cash holdings and turnover. The evidence shows that Samp;P 500 Index funds with low expense ratios outperform those with high expense ratios. Expense ratios generally decrease as 12b-1 fees and deferred charges decrease and as fund size and age increase. Investors should not view Samp;P 500 Index funds as being homogeneous because significant differences exist in expenses and performance among the funds. After controlling for attributes that influence fund expense ratios, we conclude that some index funds have expense ratios that are significantly higher than the norm. Despite the often-presumed commodity-like nature of index funds, Samp;P 500 Index funds are not all created equal. Our evidence shows that investors tend to follow a policy of choosing those funds with low expense ratios.
Book Synopsis Performance Characteristics of Global Equity Mutual Funds by : Charlotte A. Neumann
Download or read book Performance Characteristics of Global Equity Mutual Funds written by Charlotte A. Neumann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Multifund Investing by : Michael D. Hirsch
Download or read book Multifund Investing written by Michael D. Hirsch and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mutual Fund Characteristics, Managerial Attributes and Fund Performance by : William J. Bertin
Download or read book Mutual Fund Characteristics, Managerial Attributes and Fund Performance written by William J. Bertin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a comprehensive examination of recent mutual fund performance by analyzing a large set of both mutual funds and fund attributes in an effort to link performance to fund-specific characteristics. The sample of funds used in this regression analysis is free of survivorship bias, and the study addresses benchmark issues as well. The results indicate that the hypothesized relationship between performance and the explanatory variables are generally upheld. After taking into consideration general market conditions and fund investment objective, the characteristic variables that relate to fund popularity, growth, cost and management also explain performance. Finally, after controlling for survivorship and benchmark error, the results refute the performance persistence phenomenon.
