In this study, we investigate the mutual fund managers' ability to time market coskewness. Analyzing nine investment styles of US equity fund, we find strong evidence to support that between 1973 and 2018, mutual fund managers investing in Small-Blend and Small-Growth schemes demonstrate the...

Motivated by the increasingly large weight of foreign investment funds on the portfolio of Italian residents, this paper provides an estimate of the composition, by instrument and by issuer country, of Italy's portfolio assets after “looking through” cross-border positions in investment...

Recent research suggests that improper identification of outliers can lead to distorted inference. We investigate this issue by examining the role that multivariate outliers play in research outcomes using the Chen, Hong, Huang, and Kubik (2004) study. We find that the documented negative...

This paper provides new evidence about returns to scale in asset management, and their connection with capital flows to funds by investors. Equity mutual funds have diminishing returns to scale at the industry level, while hedge and fixed income funds have increasing returns to scale. The...

We show that Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds persistently exhibit a preference for growth stocks over value stocks, despite the fact that value stocks outperform growth stocks on average. Moreover, funds with a growth tilt do not under-perform their value-oriented peer funds. To...

According to the costly arbitrage theory, stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility deter arbitrageurs from trading against the temporal mispricing to gain profits. Hence, long equity holders, such as equity mutual funds, would not take on too much 'idiosyncratic risk' in their portfolios,...

At $2 trillion and growing, target date funds have become the most important investment in 401(k) plans, yet these funds are still in their infancy, having effectively launched with the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Importantly there is not yet a standard benchmark for evaluating TDF...

In the continued debate over passive and active funds, literature commonly looks at superior returns and their persistence when measuring fund performance. This paper, however, demonstrates that over time, superior returns can create losses that supersede gains after accounting for costs typical...

We show that some mutual funds are created to exploit investor irrationality and prioritize raising short-term capital over value creation. We find that capital flows into new funds, which lack performance histories, are especially sensitive to portfolio compositions. Funds loading heavily on...

This study evaluates the performance of a selection of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), and Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Funds (UCITS) which followed a global geographic focus strategy during the period 2010-2016. These two fund structures are governed by...