The Last Great Arbitrage : Exploiting the Buy-and-Hold Mutual Fund Investor
This paper demonstrates that an an institutional feature inherent in a multitude of mutual funds managing billions in assets generates fund NAVs that reflect stale prices. Since, in many cases, investors can trade at these NAVs with little or no transactions costs, there is an obvious trading opportunity. Simple, feasible strategies generate Sharpe ratios that are sometimes one hundred times greater than the Sharpe ratio of the underlying fund. These opportunities are especially prevalent in international funds that buy Japanese or European equities and in funds that invest in thinly traded securities in the U.S. When implemented, the gains from these strategies are matched by o setting losses incurred by buy-and-hold investors in these funds. In one particular example, we explore the consequences of trading between different Vanguard mutual funds, motivated via the rules inherent in University 403B plans. Compared to an equal-weighted buy-and-hold portfolio of international Vanguard funds with a 25% cumulative return, the strategy discussed in this paper produces a 139% return while being in the stock market less than 25% of the time!
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[2008]
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Authors: | Boudoukh, Jacob |
Other Persons: | Richardson, Matthew P. (contributor) ; Subrahmanyam, Marti G. (contributor) |
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[2008]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (37 p) |
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Series: | NYU Working Paper ; No. S-AM-00-04 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 2000 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768446
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