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How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Reuter, Jonathan - 2010
The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?
Ang, Andrew - 2008
Since the after-fee returns of funds-of-funds are, on average, lower than hedge fund returns, it is easy to conclude that funds-of-funds do not add value compared to hedge funds. However, funds-of-funds should not be evaluated relative to hedge fund returns in publicly reported databases....
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An Econometric Model of Serial Correlation and Illiquidity in Hedge Fund Returns
Getmansky, Mila - 2003
The returns to hedge funds and other alternative investments are often highly serially correlated in sharp contrast to the returns of more traditional investment vehicles such as long-only equity portfolios and mutual funds. In this paper, we explore several sources of such serial correlation...
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Hedge Funds With Style
Brown, Stephen J. - 2001
The popular perception is that hedge funds follow a reasonably well defined market-neutral investment style. While this long-short investment strategy may have characterized the first hedge funds, today hedge funds are a reasonably heterogeneous group. They are better defined in terms of their...
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The Economics of Hedge Funds : Alpha, Fees, Leverage, and Valuation
Lan, Yingcong - 2011
Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees indexed …
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Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill
Kacperczyk, Marcin - 2011
Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has … picking skills and little evidence of timing skills among successful managers. This paper estimates skill separately in booms … and recessions and finds that the extent to which managers focus on stock picking or market timing fluctuates with the …
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Managerial Skill Acquisition and the Theory of Economic Development
Beaudry, Paul - 2005
possibilities are internalized in the market, and where managers are complementary inputs to non-managerial workers. The paper … illustrates why some countries may adopt modern technologies while others stay backwards. The paper also explains why managers may …
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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
Cavagnaro, Daniel R. - 2016
Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of...
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Matching Capital and Labor
Berk, Jonathan B. - 2014
30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst … its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a similar effect when a firm hires managers from another firm. We …
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Scale and Skill in Active Management
Pastor, Lubos - 2014
We empirically analyze the nature of returns to scale in active mutual fund management. We find strong evidence of decreasing returns at the industry level: As the size of the active mutual fund industry increases, a fund's ability to outperform passive benchmarks declines. At the fund level,...
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