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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 Volatility and Mutual Fund Performance by : Nattawat Kittisommanakun
Download or read book Volatility and Mutual Fund Performance written by Nattawat Kittisommanakun and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Optionable Stocks and Mutual Fund Performance by : Chune Young Chung
Download or read book Optionable Stocks and Mutual Fund Performance written by Chune Young Chung and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine whether stock-level options information drives mutual fund performance. Our paper is motivated by existing studies indicating that options prices or implied volatilities predict stock returns. We find that stock-implied volatility innovations forecast mutual fund performance. Specifically, mutual funds investing in fewer optionable stocks or optionable stocks with favorable information outperform other funds. In addition, mutual fund managers overall do not trade on past options information. However, well-performing fund managers use that information to decrease their holdings in poorly-performing stocks. Moreover, well-performing mutual funds containing strong options information tend to increase their holdings in optionable stocks in subsequent periods.
Book Synopsis Mutual Fund Flow-Performance Relationship Under Volatile Market Condition by : Mingsheng Li
Download or read book Mutual Fund Flow-Performance Relationship Under Volatile Market Condition written by Mingsheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze the relationship between flows and performance of Chinese mutual funds that trade in a volatile market environment. Consistent with existing literature, we find that the net flow to a fund is positively related to past fund performance. Contrary to previous studies using samples in the U.S. and other countries, our results do not exhibit an asymmetric flow-performance relationship, nor do we find any significant star effect in China. These results imply that market volatility plays an important role in reducing the asymmetric flow-performance relationship. Furthermore, we find that the positive relationship is more pronounced during bull markets than during bear markets. This suggests that Chinese mutual fund investors are more confident and invest more aggressively when stock markets perform well.
Book Synopsis International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion – A Survey by : Mr.R. Gelos
Download or read book International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion – A Survey written by Mr.R. Gelos and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaining a better understanding of the behavior of international investors is key for informing the debate about the optimal response to capital flows and about reforms to the international financial architecture. In this context, recent research on the behavior of international mutual funds at the micro level has expanded our knowledge about the drivers of portfolio flows and the mechanisms behind the transmission of financial shocks across countries. This paper provides a brief survey of this literature, with a focus on the empirical evidence for emerging markets. Overall, the behavior of international mutual funds is complex and overly simplistic characterizations are misleading. However, there is broad-based evidence for momentum trading among funds. Moreover, funds tend to avoid opaque markets and assets, and this behavior becomes more pronounced during volatile times. Portfolio rebalancing mechanisms are clearly important in explaining contagion patterns, even in the absence of common macroeconomic fundamentals. From a surveillance point of view, this implies that monitoring the exposures of large investors at a micro level is crucial to assess vulnerabilities.
Book Synopsis High Returns from Low Risk by : Pim van Vliet
Download or read book High Returns from Low Risk written by Pim van Vliet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing "high-risk equals high-reward" is holding your portfolio hostage High Returns from Low Risk proves that low-volatility, low-risk portfolios beat high-volatility portfolios hands down, and shows you how to take advantage of this paradox to dramatically improve your returns. Investors traditionally view low-risk stocks as safe but unprofitable, but this old canard is based on a flawed premise; it fails to see beyond the monthly horizon, and ignores compounding returns. This book updates the thinking and brings reality to modelling to show how low-risk stocks actually outperform high-risk stocks by an order of magnitude. Easy to read and easy to implement, the plan presented here will help you construct a portfolio that delivers higher returns per unit of risk, and explains how to achieve excellent investment results over the long term. Do you still believe that investors are rewarded for bearing risk, and that the higher the risk, the greater the reward? That old axiom is holding you back, and it is time to start seeing the whole picture. This book shows you, through deep historical simulation, how to reap the rewards of smarter investing. Learn how and why low-risk, low-volatility stocks beat the market Discover the formula that outperforms Greenblatt's Construct your own low-risk portfolio Select the right ETF or low-risk fund to manage your money Great returns and lower risk sound like a winning combination — what happens once everyone is doing it? The beauty of the low-risk strategy is that it continues to work even after the paradox is widely known; long-term investment success is possible for anyone who can shake off the entrenched wisdom and go low-risk. High Returns from Low Risk provides the proof, model and strategy to reign in your exposure while raking in the profit.
Book Synopsis How Useful Is the Information Ratio to Evaluate the Performance of Portfolio Managers? by : Christoph Schneider
Download or read book How Useful Is the Information Ratio to Evaluate the Performance of Portfolio Managers? written by Christoph Schneider and published by Diplomica Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of comparing the performance of different risky investments, for example investment funds, on a quantitative basis dates back to the beginnings of the asset management industry and has been an important field of research in finance since then. Performance measures serve as valuable quantitative evidence for the portfolio manager's performance as well as for the evaluation of investment decisions ex post. Based on the idea of the capital asset pricing model proposed by Treynor, Sharpe and Lintner, Treynor developed the first quantitative performance measure intended to rate mutual funds, the Treynor Ratio. Since then, a large number of performance measures with very different characteristics have been developed. In addition to their power of rating investments ex post, their ability to predict future performance has been thoroughly analyzed by Grinblatt & Titman, Brown & Goetzmann, Carhart and others. Besides academia, the driving force behind the development of more sophisticated performance measures has always been the investors. This is understandable, as "the truly poor managers are afraid, the unlucky managers will be unjustly condemned, and the new managers have no track record. Only the skilled (or lucky) managers are enthusiastic." By combining and applying the results of previous research to a new sample of nearly 10,000 mutual funds that invest in different countries and asset classes, this thesis clarifies its central research question: Is the Information Ratio a useful and reliable performance measure? In order to answer this central question, it has been split up into the following sub-parts: What are the characteristics of a useful and reliable performance measure? What actually is "good" performance? Is the "good" performance a result of luck or of skilled decisions and does it persist over time? How does the Information Ratio compare to other performance measures, and what are its strengths and weaknesses? This empirical study aims at answeri
Book Synopsis Mutual Funds and Exchange-traded Funds by : Harold Kent Baker
Download or read book Mutual Funds and Exchange-traded Funds written by Harold Kent Baker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds: Building Blocks to Wealth provides a fresh look at this intriguing but often complex subject. Its coverage spans the gamut from theoretical to practical coverage.
Book Synopsis Three Essays on Mutual Funds by : Xuemei Guo
Download or read book Three Essays on Mutual Funds written by Xuemei Guo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the determinants of mutual fund flows and mutual fund performance. The first chapter examines the response of fund investors to style volatility and the impact of style volatility on the flow-performance relationship. Three main empirical findings are obtained using both a portfolio approach and a multivariate regression approach. First, I find that there is a significant positive relationship between the style volatility and the subsequent fund flows to mutual funds. This finding can be interpreted as either fund managers having style timing ability or fund managers catering to investors preferences or tastes. Second, the positive relationship between past style volatility and fund flows is less pronounced for funds with superior past performance. Lastly, fund style volatility has a dampening effect on the flow-performance relationship: the flow-performance sensitivity weakens by 12% when the past style volatility increases by one standard deviation. It is likely that performance is perceived as a less informative signal of investment ability for fund managers who follow inconsistent styles over time. The second chapter studies how the response of fund investors to past risk varies over business cycles. I employ the NBER boom indicator, the Consumer Sentiment Index, and the National Activity Index to proxy for economic conditions. I find that mutual fund investors react differently to risk across economic environments. Funds with more volatile past returns discourage fund investors. The investors’ demand for actively managed funds is higher under good market conditions. Fund flows are less responsive to risk during expansionary economic periods. This finding may indicate that fund investors are risk averse and become less risk averse in good market states. The third chapter empirically examines whether mutual fund performance is affected by prior family performance. I propose two testable hypotheses: the information and resource sharing hypothesis and the cross-fund subsidization hypothesis. The empirical findings suggest that there is a significant positive relationship between prior family performance and subsequent fund performance. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that mutual funds in the same family share informational resources. This positive relation also justifies the finding in the mutual fund flow literature that fund flows are higher for funds with higher past family performance. Furthermore, I find that the predictive power of the prior family performance is stronger in larger fund families.
Book Synopsis Portfolio Quality and Mutual Fund Performance by : David R. Gallagher
Download or read book Portfolio Quality and Mutual Fund Performance written by David R. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates how the quality of stocks owned by mutual funds affects the performance of those funds during 2000-2009. The quality of a stock is positively related to its size, while quality is inversely related to volatility. Evidently, stocks in the lowest quality decile perform particularly poorly amidst volatile market conditions with a mean monthly DGTW alpha 1.93% (25.73% p.a.) less than high quality stocks. Furthermore, funds which hold the lowest quality stocks exhibit substantial underperformance, particularly during market downturns, with funds in the lowest decile of quality incurring a mean monthly DGTW alpha 0.96% (12.14% p.a.) lower than their higher quality counterparts. Interestingly, we discover a trend to funds investing in higher quality stocks over time.
Book Synopsis Incentive Fees and Mutual Fund Volatility Timing by : Erasmo Giambona
Download or read book Incentive Fees and Mutual Fund Volatility Timing written by Erasmo Giambona and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper shows that compensation incentives partly drive fund managers' market volatility timing strategies. Larger management fees are associated with less counter-cyclical or more pro-cyclical volatility timing. Fund investment objectives and styles also partly determine volatility timing. Funds with more aggressive styles time volatility more counter-cyclically. Thus, managers may try to outperform the general market by adopting aggressive styles, while dynamically hedging portfolio volatility using counter-cyclical volatility timing. We also find that fund managers systematically change their portfolio betas in response to aggregate equity fund cash flows. The average effects of volatility timing and fund flow timing on fund performance are mostly positive for funds that increase their betas when conditional volatility and fund flows increase (i.e., pro-cyclical timers).
Book Synopsis A Study of Mutual Fund Flow and Market Return Volatility by :
Download or read book A Study of Mutual Fund Flow and Market Return Volatility written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled A Study of Mutual Fund Flow and Market Return Volatility Submitted by YingWANG for the Degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in June 2003 Abstract Whether institutional trading stabilizes or destabilizes the market has long been a controversial issue that interests practitioners and academicians. In this study, we investigate the impact of institutional trading on the market by examining the daily relationship between aggregate flow into U.S. equity funds and market return volatility. We adopt three estimators of daily market volatility: (1) the high-frequency volatility estimated from the intraday return data of S & P 500 index, using the method of Andersen, Bollerslev, Diebold and Labys (2001) and Andersen, Bollerslev, Diebold and Ebens (2001), (2) the high-low volatility estimator developed by Parkinson (1980), and (3) the implied volatility index based on the option of the S & P 100 index. Our daily flow data are from the same source of Edelen and Warner (2001), but over a longer period, i.e., from February 3, 1998 to December 29,2002. Our initial evidence suggests a negative contemporaneous relationship between market volatility and aggregate mutual fund flow across the whole flow range. We further examine the relationships of market volatility and fund inflow and fund outflow, respectively. Our empirical results show that an asymmetric concurrent relationship between fund flow and market volatility exists: fund inflow is negatively correlated with market volatility, whereas fund outflow is positively correlated with market volatility. We discuss potential explanations for our results and suggest that they are consistent with information content differences between mutual funds' buy and sell orders. Our study also implies that individual investors and fund managers play joint roles in the market. We also investigate the daily relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and aggregate mutual fund.
Book Synopsis Volatile Market Condition and Investor Clientele Effects on Mutual Fund Flow Performance Relationship by : Jun Xiao
Download or read book Volatile Market Condition and Investor Clientele Effects on Mutual Fund Flow Performance Relationship written by Jun Xiao and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze mutual fund flow-performance relationship using a novel sample of Chinese mutual funds that trade in a volatile market environment. Consistent with existing literature, we find that the net flow to a fund is positively related to past fund performance. However, the positive flow-performance relationship weakens when the stock market is divided into high and low volatile periods or when funds are divided into good and poor performers. Contrary to previous studies using samples in U.S. and other countries, our results do not exhibit an asymmetric flow-performance relationship, nor do we find any significant Morningstar rating effect or smart money effect. Furthermore, we find that the overall stock market performance is the primary driving force of flow-performance relationship and the positive relationship is more pronounced in bull markets. Consistent with Thaler and Johnson's (1990) house money effect and the overconfidence hypothesis proposed by Gervais and Odean (2001), this suggests that Chinese mutual fund investors are vulnerable to market conditions. The overall results imply that market conditions and investor clientele differences play an important role in fund investments and flow-performance relationships.
Book Synopsis Essays on Information Asymmetry, Active Management, and Performance by : Ivan Stetsyuk
Download or read book Essays on Information Asymmetry, Active Management, and Performance written by Ivan Stetsyuk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agency theory suggests that information asymmetry between mutual fund managers and mutual fund investors can be mitigated if managers are compensated for the private information that influences mutual fund risk and performance. This study investigates the role of active management in influencing returns and return volatility of mutual funds. Chapter 1 investigates whether real estate mutual funds (REMFs) outperform Carhart's (1997) four-factor and index benchmarks using daily return data from the CRSP survivorship bias-free mutual fund database from September 1998 to December 2013. We employ generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic (GARCH) volatility models to estimate more precise alphas than those generated in the extant studies. We document that risk-adjusted alphas of actively managed REMFs are statistically and economically significant, reflecting the informational advantage and skills of active managers. We also show that actively managed REMFs outperform the real estate index benchmark (Ziman Real Estate Index) and generate a yearly buy-and-hold abnormal return of 3.64%. Active management, therefore, provides value beyond the diversification benefits that can be generated by investing into the real estate index. While active managers of REMFs generate abnormal returns (gross of expenses), they capture the entire amount themselves, sharing none with investors (net of expenses). Accordingly, the average abnormal return to investors is close to zero due to expenses associated with REMFs, such as management fees, 12b-1 fees, waivers, and reimbursements. Finally, we find that passively managed REMFs do not generate abnormal risk-adjusted alphas in Carhart's (1997) four-factor model. Chapter 2 examines managed volatility mutual funds (MVMFs) that utilize a range of investment strategies focused on portfolio volatility. These funds have increased in popularity in the wake of the financial crisis (December 2007 to June 2009) which introduced considerable volatility into the markets. We test whether MVMFs provide better performance during periods of recessions and expansions as compared to conventional mutual funds (MFs). We obtain several interesting results. First, MVMFs underperform compared to conventional MFs by more than 2% during the entire sample period. Second, MVMFs outperform conventional MFs in recessions by over 4% annually. Third, MVMFs underperform conventional MFs by more than 2.5% during expansions. Our results suggest that MVMFs can benefit investors during periods of recessions at the cost of performing worse during expansions. Chapter 3 studies MF return volatility patterns by testing a host of hypotheses for MFs with various style objectives. To conduct the tests, we use daily returns data from the CRSP survivorship bias-free mutual fund database from September 1998 to December 2013. We examine volatility patterns across the following nine styles: Passively Managed, Actively Managed, Sector, Capitalization, Growth and Income, Income, Growth, Hedged, and Dedicated Short Bias. We employ the exponential generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic (EGARCH) volatility model. Several results are obtained. First, we show that the financial crisis of 2007-2009 had a positive or a negative impact on volatility, depending on the investment style. Second, MF volatility behavior exhibits significant cluster effects in all styles, indicating that larger return shocks lead to greater increases in return volatility. Third, shock-persistence patterns differ across various MF styles with shocks to Dedicated Short Bias MFs being the least persistent and Capitalization and Growth and Income being the most persistent. Lastly, there is considerable negative asymmetry in MF return volatility changes in response to good and bad news in the sense that negative shocks to MF returns increase volatility more than positive shocks of the same magnitude for many Actively Managed MF styles. Significant negative asymmetry of this type makes the industry vulnerable to market downturns and should be addressed by regulators, MF managers, and investors.
Book Synopsis Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds by : Christine Benz
Download or read book Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds written by Christine Benz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds "Picking actively managed mutual funds is no mean challenge. And as the recent era underscores, past performance is of little help. The Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds helps cut through the fog with a solid volume of constructive advice. The central message-'truly diversify, keep it simple, focus on costs, and stick with it'-is not only timeless, it is priceless." -John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group "There's nothing Morningstar doesn't know about mutual funds. And at last, for ready reference, there's a book. You'll find everything here you need to know about managing fund investments, inside or outside a 401(k)." -Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek columnist and author of Making the Most of Your Money "All serious mutual fund investors know that Morningstar is the source of impeccable data and sound investment advice. This book is the culmination of nearly two decades of research, analysis, and good old commonsense wisdom." -Tyler Mathisen, financial journalist, CNBC "Momentum investing, the hype in NASDAQ, the dot-com mania are mostly behind us. Now, we must navigate through the market debris. We need a compass as we look to allocate our financial resources in a way best suited to maintain purchasing power and fully fund retirement. The Morningstar Guide will help investors find true north and steer a course to reach their long-term financial goals." -Mario J. Gabelli, Chief Investment Officer Gabelli Asset Management, a publicly traded company "A generation of investors who took the stock market for granted now know how important it is to understand-and control-their own investments. The Morningstar Guide should be their most important resource." -Terry Savage, Chicago Sun-Times financial columnist and author of The Savage Truth on Money
Book Synopsis Diversification and Portfolio Management of Mutual Funds by : G. Gregoriou
Download or read book Diversification and Portfolio Management of Mutual Funds written by G. Gregoriou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the importance of diversification for reducing volatility of investment portfolios. It shows how to improve investment efficiency, and explains how international diversification reduces overall risk while enhancing performance. This book is a crucial tool for any investor looking to improve the profit gain from their investment.
Book Synopsis Stock Market Volatility and Corporate Investment by : Zuliu Hu
Download or read book Stock Market Volatility and Corporate Investment written by Zuliu Hu and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite concerns are often voiced on the so called “excess volatility” of the stock market, little is known about the implications of market volatility for the real economy. This paper examines whether the stock market volatility affects real fixed investment. The empirical evidence obtained from the US data shows that market volatility has independent effects on investment over and above that of stock returns. Volatility and its changes are negatively related to investment growth. To the extent volatility depresses fixed capital formation and hence future income growth, the results suggest the desirability of reducing stock market volatility.
