scholarly journals Do actively managed funds perform better than index funds? A test in the Canadian market

2016 ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Alteen ◽  
Veit Wohlgemuth
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Index ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
The Us ◽  
Canadian Market ◽  
Managed Funds ◽  
Index Investing

Actuality of the study: Mutual funds are a favourite investment product among many investors. They provide a simple means of diversification, especially for those with smaller amounts of capital, and the popularity of mutual funds has increased with the success of the marketing efforts behind them.Purpose: This study evaluates the performance of actively managed and index mutual funds within the Canadian equities market.Findings: As index investing has increased in popularity, and other markets have become more connected and open, there is a need for research on equity mutual funds in countries outside the US.Originality / Value: The majority of previous research on index funds and actively managed mutual funds is focused on the US market and related indexes such as the S&P 500.Practical implications: This study suggests that, on average, active funds in Canada fail to beat their benchmarks net (but not gross) of the common fee or management expense ratio. Surprisingly, this research finds no positive relationship between higher fees and better gross performance. Actively managed funds also have poorer performance over the long term. This study finds that investors would be better off purchasing low cost index funds as they provide a more secure return.Future research: This study endorses research on other markets with inclusion of additional variables in order to explain gross performance and secure returns.

Index Fund Entry and Financial Product Market Competition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Cost Index ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Staggered Entry ◽  
Managed Funds

The active money management industry is characterized by both strong competitive pressure from passive investment vehicles and high fees. This paper investigates how the introduction of low-cost index funds affects fund company strategies. The retail mutual fund market is segmented, where unsophisticated investors rely on financial advisers and sophisticated ones invest directly. Exploiting the staggered entry of low-cost Vanguard index funds as competitive shocks, I show that, in response to competition, incumbents sold to self-directed investors reduce their fees by 5% of the mean; however, funds sold with broker recommendations increase their fees by 6% of the mean. Index fund entry also slows the growth of actively managed funds. The responsiveness of broker-sold fund flows to distribution fees increases, suggesting a shift in composition toward less elastic consumers. Further, incumbents increase the degree of active management. The results illustrate why mutual fund fees slowly decline in the aggregate despite competition from lower-cost alternatives. This paper was accepted by Gustavo Manso, finance.

scholarly journals Long-Term Sustainable Investment for Retirement

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5000
Author(s):  
Iqbal Owadally ◽  
Jean-René Mwizere ◽  
Neema Kalidas ◽  
Kalyanie Murugesu ◽  
Muhammad Kashif
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Management Fees ◽  
Sustainable Investment ◽  
Managed Funds

We consider whether sustainable investment can deliver performance comparable to conventional investment in investors’ long-term retirement plans. On the capital markets, sustainable investment can be achieved through various instruments and strategies, one of them being investment in mutual funds that subscribe to ESG (environmental, social, and governance) principles. First, we compare the investment performance of ESG funds with matched conventional funds over the period 1994–2020, in Europe and the U.S. We find no significant evidence of differing performance (at 5% level) despite using a number of investment performance metrics. Second, we perform a historical backtest to model a UK personal retirement plan from 2000 till 2020, taking full account of investment management fees and transaction costs. We find that investing in an index-tracker fund overlaid with ESG screening delivers a pension which is 10.4% larger than is achieved if the index-tracker fund is used without screening. This is also 20.2% larger than is achieved by investing in a collection of actively managed funds with a sustainable purpose. We conclude that an ESG-screened long-term passive investment approach for retirement plans is likely to be successful in satisfying the twin objectives of a secure retirement income and of sustainability.

An Empirical Study on the Performance of Select Large Cap Equity Mutual Funds in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samyabrata Das
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Managed Funds ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Fund Return

Since the opening up of the economy in the early 1990s, Indian mutual fund industry has witnessed fabulous quantitative growth. Funds which invest a larger proportion of their corpus in companies with large market capitalization are called large cap funds. Actively managed funds make use of a human element, such as a single manager, comanagers or a team of managers, to actively manage a fund's portfolio. The main objective of the study is to analyse the performance of select actively managed large cap equity funds in the line of risk-return parameters. This study is based on fourteen funds from twelve Asset Management Companies. All the funds are ranked under seven performance measures, namely, fund return, fund standard deviation, Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio, return from systematic investment plan (SIP), Jensen Alpha, and RSQ, for five different time periods of 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year.

scholarly journals Exchange-traded funds as an alternative investment option

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
António Afonso ◽  
Pedro Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Exchange Traded Funds ◽  
Price Efficiency ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Value ◽  
Net Asset Value ◽  
Tracking Ability ◽  
Investment Option

We conduct an analysis of Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs), Index and Equity mutual funds and their respective benchmark during the 2010-2015 period for the Portuguese fund industry. For the period 2010-2017, we test ETFs for price inefficiency (existence of deviations between prices and the Net Asset Value) and persistence. We find that the studied ETF does not always outperform index funds in replicating the variations of the PSI 20 index, despite exhibiting better tracking ability when facing downside deviations of the benchmark and a better capacity of smoothing tracking deviations. Regarding ETFs price efficiency and its persistence, the study reveals that the examined ETF is priced at a low average discount with evidence of deviations persistence of at least two days. The investment schemes with the highest ability to track the PSI 20 Index were PSI20 (ETF), BBVA PPA Índice PSI20, and the equity mutual fund BPI Portugal.

scholarly journals WILL THE WINNER STILL BE THE WINNER? A STUDY OF EQUITY MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 566-577
Author(s):  
Budi Frensidy ◽  
Reynardo Nainggolan ◽  
Robiyanto Robiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Stable Performance ◽  
One Year ◽  
Long Term Performance ◽  
Term Performance

In this study, we explore the consistency of Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) – denominated equity mutual funds offered in Indonesia from 2007 to 2017 from various holding periods, namely one year, three years, and five years. Two questions are addressed. Will the winning mutual funds be the winner in the following period? Is the performance of a longer period more persistent than that of the shorter period? Using the nominal return from these eleven years, we find that the equity mutual funds in Indonesia earn no stable performance. The winner will not always be the winner in the following observed period. In addition, no evidence is found that long-term performance would result in a better persistence than that of the shorter time frame.

scholarly journals Asset Management Fees and the Growth of Finance

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton G Malkiel
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Management Fees ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Investment Advice ◽  
Managed Funds

From 1980 to 2006, the financial services sector of the US economy grew from 4.9 percent to 8.3 percent of GDP. A substantial share of that increase was comprised of increases in the fees paid for asset management. This paper examines the significant increase in asset management fees charged to both individual and institutional investors. One could argue that the increase in fees charged by actively managed funds could prove to be socially useful if it reflected increasing returns for investors from active management or if it was necessary to improve the efficiency of the market for investors who availed themselves of low-cost passive (index) funds. But neither of these arguments can be supported by the data. Actively managed funds of publicly traded securities have consistently underperformed index funds, and the amount of the underperformance is well approximated by the difference in the fees charged by the two types of funds. Moreover, it appears that there was no change in the efficiency of the market from 1980 to 2011. Thus, the increase in fees is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors. Indeed, perhaps the greatest inefficiency in the stock market is in “the market” for investment advice.

Can mutual fund managers predict security prices to beat the market?The case of Greece during the debt crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Drosos Koutsokostas ◽  
Spyros Papathanasiou ◽  
Nikolaos Eriotis
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Performance Persistence ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Term Performance

The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Greek equity mutual funds, elaborating on stock selection in parallel with market timing measures, in comparison with the performance of ETFs and index funds for the period 01/24/2008-05/12/2017, and the short-term performance persistence of actively managed funds for the period 05/12/2015-05/12/2017. Using all domestic equity mutual funds at our disposal and daily data, the authors apply multi-factor models to estimate risk-adjusted returns and to evaluate the selectivity and market timing ability of fund managers. In order to investigate short-term performance persistence, the coexistence of stock selection and market timing strategy is allowed and a battery of parametric and nonparametric tests is implemented. Results show that actively managed mutual funds underperformed the market index, as well as passively managed ETFs and index funds, primarily due to the managers’ inability to time the market. Furthermore, a winner-picking strategy to outperform a-buy-the-market-and hold policy is questioned.

scholarly journals Performance Appraisal of Asset Management Companies in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Avijit Mallik ◽  
Saad Niamatullah ◽  
Swarup Saha
Keyword(s):  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Small Investors ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Managed Funds ◽  
Asset Managers

Mutual funds are a type of collective investment scheme where a large number of small investors pool their savings together and entrust it to an asset manager, who manages the capital to maximize returns in exchange for a management fee. While mutual funds and other collective investment schemes are popular in developed markets, with assets under management (AUM) to GDP ratio of 62% globally, they are yet to gain popularity in Bangladesh, where AUM-to-GDP ratio stands at only 0.53%. However, mutual funds and asset management companies have been growing at high rates, with 37 closed-end and 42 open-end funds now in operation, and there is enormous potential for growth in the mutual fund industry in Bangladesh. Since mutual funds are a new product in the Bangladeshi market, a detailed study was performed in order to distinguish skilled asset managers from unskilled asset managers. In this study, “skill” has been defined as the ability to beat the broad-market DSEX index on after-fee basis, with the underlying logic that managers - all of whom charge a management fee - should at least be able to beat a passive investment in the broad DSEX. For purposes of the study, the weekly NAV at market value was of 76 mutual funds managed by 16 asset management companies (AMCs) were collected. The weekly returns for the DSEX and each fund under consideration were calculated separately. Four well-known measures were used to rank each mutual fund utilizing the weekly returns. The measures were Jensen’s Alpha, the Sharpe Ratio, the Treynor Ratio and the Modigliani M2 Alpha ratio. For AMCs managing multiple funds, the measures were asset-weighted to calculate the measure for the AMC as a whole. Our findings illustrated that only 5 out of 16 AMCs managed to beat the DSEX index and earn an alpha over the benchmark. Our findings were in line with academic consensus which states that active management is a zero-sum game and that the majority of actively managed funds will underperform the index on an after-fee basis. Our recommendation is for AMCs to introduce passively-managed index funds which will at least keep up with the market return and minimize fees and trading costs.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the US Mutual Funds Sector: What Determines Performance?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Faisal Mahmood ◽  
Ghulame Rubbaniy Ghulame Rubbaniy
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Management Fees ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
The Us

This paper analyzes the performance of equity mutual funds in the US, using monthly data for a sample of 4,431 equity mutual funds over the period 1999–2012. Our empirical findings suggest that larger funds with higher liquidity and turnover generate higher returns, while expenses and management fees have a negative impact on performance.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on the performance of emerging market mutual funds: evidence from India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sali Maheen
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Fixed Effect ◽  
Gmm Estimator ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Major Implication ◽  
Managed Funds

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine the widely believed beating capacity of actively managed funds during the market downturn. This popular hypothesis has been tested with the performance of Indian Equity Mutual Funds during the pandemic period. The conditional alphas are estimated using lagged instrumental variables with the fixed effect/LSDV estimator and the sys-GMM estimator in contrast to the OLS estimation from a sample of 1271 schemes for 5 months from 1st March 2020 to 31st July 2020. The study’s findings indicate that the actively managed Indian mutual fund co-moves with the market and does not possess the ability to beat the market. The major implication comes from the application of fixed effect and GMM estimators for the performance evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds’ during the crisis period, and it serves the investors in deciding the profitable investment opportunities.

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