Does It All Add Up? Benchmarks and the Compensation of Active Portfolio Managers.
In this article, the authors examine theoretically the use of benchmark portfolios in the compensation of privately informed portfolio managers. They find that the use of a benchmark, and particularly the types of benchmarks often observed in practice, cannot be easily rationalized. Specifically, commonly used benchmark-adjusted compensation schemes are generally inconsistent with optimal risk-sharing and do not lead to the choice of an optimal portfolio for the investor. Moreover, benchmarks do not help in solving potential contracting problems such as inducing the manager to expend effort or trying to screen out uninformed managers. Copyright 1997 by University of Chicago Press.
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1997
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Authors: | Admati, Anat R ; Pfleiderer, Paul |
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The Journal of Business. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 70.1997, 3, p. 323-50
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University of Chicago Press |
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