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This paper investigates whether ETF returns lead the returns of underlying bonds and similar style bond funds. Bond … predicted, we find that ETF returns predict its own NAV returns and aggregated ETF returns for each bond also predict the … underlying bond returns on a monthly basis. We show that bond liquidity is the determining factor of the predictability and the …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the demand for safe government debt to currency unhedged and hedged excess returns in a sample of US mutual funds. We find evidence of active rebalancing towards government bonds that offer relatively higher returns on an unhedged basis, in particular...
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This paper analyzes the “return gap” between dollar-weighted returns that account for intermediate investor flows (internal rate of return) and buy-and-hold returns that funds typically report. Our sample constitutes all US-domiciled open-end mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs),...
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The goal of this study is to determine which fund or country-specific characteristics predict accurate performance in terms of tracking country-specific stock market indices. Ninety-three country-specific exchange-traded funds from 47 different countries are included in this study. In accordance...
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corporate bond and stock markets. Using a comprehensive bond dataset, we observe a significant momentum effect in corporate bond … returns and bond credit spread changes. The momentum effect in bond total returns, however, is confined to low-grade bonds and … bond credit spread, not the total return, is a more appropriate proxy to examine the response of bond prices to new …
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The majority of financial trades take place in open and highly regulated markets. As an alternative venue, large asset managers sometimes offset the trades of affiliated funds in an internal market, without relying on external facilities or supervision. In this paper, we employ institutional...
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and return expectations, this paper explores portfolio reallocations among equity, bond, and money market mutual funds. As … strongly correlated with recent stock and bond market returns and stock and bond market uncertainty as measured by implied … volatilities. Stock market returns primarily stimulate exchanges between equity and money market funds with little impact on bond …
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and return expectations, this paper explores portfolio reallocations among equity, bond, and money market mutual funds. As … strongly correlated with recent stock and bond market returns and stock and bond market uncertainty as measured by implied … volatilities. Stock market returns primarily stimulate exchanges between equity and money market funds with little impact on bond …
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This study provides evidence for a positive association between mutual fund holdings’implied cost of capital (ICC) and future performance. Consistent with large transactioncosts of ICC-based investments impeding their exploitation and employing a ICC-basedstrategy reflecting skill,...
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We conduct a volatility decomposition to identify the source of performance differences between low volatility and high volatility mutual funds. A higher level of return covariance of fund holdings is associated with more fund-level exposure to the idiosyncratic volatility effect. Average...
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