This paper analyzes the performance of portfolio strategies that invest in noload, open-end U.S. domestic equity mutual funds, incorporating predictability in (i) manager skills, (ii) fund risk-loadings, and (iii) benchmark returns. Predictability in manager skills is found to be the dominant...

Bisherige Studien zur Performance von Investmentfonds kommen zu dem Schluss, dass Anleger durch eine Investition in aktiv verwaltete Fonds nicht mehr (sondern tendenziell weniger) als durch eine passive Anlage in die Benchmark verdienen. Selbst eine Investition in die Fonds mit den in der...

We propose a new measure of fund investment skill, Active Fund Overpricing (AFO), encapsulating the fund's active share of investments, the direction of fund active bets with regard to mispriced stocks, and the dispersion of mispriced stocks in the fund's investment opportunity set. We find that...

We study the interdependencies between transaction costs, portfolio characteristics, and mutual fund performance. Using a novel dataset of actual mutual fund trades, we find that, controlling for investment style, larger funds realize lower percentage transaction costs than smaller funds. Larger...