scholarly journals Does Concurrent Management of Mutual Funds and Pension Plans Create Conflicts of Interest?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (56) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Carmen Pilar Martí Ballester
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Pension Plan ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Size

The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of mutual funds —pension plans— whose managers simultaneously manage the assets belonging to pension plans —mutual funds— with that achieved by mutual funds —pension plans— whose managers only manage the assets belonging to mutual funds —pension plans—. To do this, we present a sample consisting of data corresponding to 115 Spanish equity pension plans and 336 Spanish equity mutual funds in relation to such aspects as risk-adjusted return, management and custodial fees, asset size, creation date, number of participants, name of the asset management companies for the period between February 2007 and June 2011. On this data, we propose a model using the bootstrap technique. The results obtained show no significant relationship between side-by-side management and financial performance in the mutual fund and pension plan industries. Therefore, we do not find evidence that pension plan investors are being exploited.

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 A Research on Risk Return Analysis of Selected Growth Option Mutual Fund Schemes in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12S) ◽  
pp. 545-551
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Growth Option ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Public Risk ◽  
Basic Features

Mutual funds are one of the best intermediaries in capital markets to mobilize funds from general public. Risk and return are the basic features of mutual fund. The present study evaluates and compares the performance of 26 large-cap equity schemes of five Asset Management Companies (Franklin Mutual Fund, India bulls Mutual Fund, UTI Mutual Fund, SBI Mutual fund, Axis Mutual fund). The period of the study is 5 years from 2013 to 2018. Benchmark index is BSE 100 index has been collected from www.bseindia.com. The research study has analyzed the performance of Large-Cap Equity Mutual Funds of Select Asset Management Companies and to compare the performance of Large-Cap Equity Mutual Funds of Select Asset management Companies. The methodology of the present study includes sampling, data collection and data analysis tools used for the study. The present research study is based on purely secondary data. The NAV data has been obtained from Association of Mutual funds of India (AMFI) website and other secondary data obtained from books, journals and respective mutual fund websites. In this research study, financial tools Sharpe Index, Treynor’s Index and Jensen Alpha etc., are applied for processing the data to give reliable conclusion.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Performance of Select Multicap Equity Mutual Funds in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepika Kamboj ◽  
Shukrant Jagotra
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Retail Investors ◽  
Industry Trends

Mutual funds are emerging as a popular choice among investors to park their surplus funds in India as exemplified by increasing assets under management (AUM). The study discusses several industry trends such as increase in mutual fund accounts and schemes, changing consumer preferences towards equity mutual funds and the increasing role of retail investors in the overall mutual fund market. While barriers continue to act as deterrents, the overall industry is poised to reach INR20,00,000 crore in terms of AUM by FY18. The study aims to evaluate the annual as well as periodical performance of 5 multicap mutual fund schemes of top 5 asset management companies for the period of five years from 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2017. Taking SandP BSE 500 as the benchmark index, the study computes several absolute and relative performance measures using Sharp and Treynor Ratios along with Jensen Alpha. The study finds that all schemes except HDFC Premier Multicap fund generated higher risk adjusted returns than the benchmark index. Birla Sunlife Equity fund emerged as the best performer with higher average returns and lower risk.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF INDONESIAN MUTUAL STOCK FUNDS USING SHARPE, TREYNOR, JENSEN AND M2 METHOD PERIOD 2010 – 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Andreas Andreas ◽  
Sautma Ronni Basana
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Equity Funds

This study examines the performance of equity mutual funds using Sharpe, Treynor, Jensen, and M2. The sample used in this study is 57 stock mutual funds in 2015 – 2019 and 29 stock mutual funds in 2010 – 2019. The performance of stock mutual funds will be compared with LQ – 45 and IHSG to find out whether they underperform or outperform on market performance. The results showed that when seen in years 2015 - 2019 with the benchmark LQ - 45, 11 equity funds outperformed by using Sharpe, Treynor, and M2, and 12 mutual funds stocks outperformed by using a Jensen. Using the Composite Index as the benchmark, it is found that four equity funds outperformed by using Sharpe, M2, and 5 equity funds outperformed by using Treynor and Jensen from 57 samples of mutual fund shares. From the performance of the year 2010 - 2019, it is found that the 10 equity funds outperformed by using Sharpe and M2, and 15 equity funds outperformed by using Treynor and Jensen with LQ – 45 as the benchmark. The Composite Index found that 0 of stock mutual funds outperformed by using Sharpe and M2, while 3 mutual funds outperformed using Treynor and 2 mutual funds outperformed using Jensen from 29 stock mutual funds samples.

scholarly journals MANAGERIAL ABILITIES AND FACTOR INVESTMENT STYLE PERFORMANCES OF MALAYSIAN MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Pick-Soon Ling ◽  
Ruzita Abdul-Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Investment Style ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Stock Picking

Background and Purpose: Studies focusing on mutual fund managerial abilities and investment style strategies are still scarce in the literature. Thus, this study aims to provide new evidence and insights into the managerial abilities and investment style performances of Malaysian fund managers.   Methodology: A total of 444 Malaysian equity mutual funds (EMFs) were evaluated using Carhart’s model incorporated with Treynor-Mazuy (T-M) and Henriksson-Merton (H-M) market timing models for the study period, from January 1995 to December 2017.   Findings: Fund managers displayed superior stock selection skills with 32 percent and 43 percent of funds for T-M and H-M respectively, with perverse market timing ability which accounted for 39 percent and 42 percent of funds for T-M and H-M respectively. Perverse timing ability had reduced the superior stock-picking skills of fund managers. This suggests that the EMFs performance could further improve if respective fund managers perform better in market timing ability. The finding also indicates that size effect (SMB) and value effect (HML) play significant roles in investment style strategies, while results of momentum factor (WML) propose that Malaysian fund managers have followed the contrarian strategy.   Contributions: This study contributes in several ways especially in the literature of portfolio management as the evidence is obtained from the largest mutual funds sample size and the longest study period. Moreover, this study also used the highest frequency data to study the effects of market timing which were overlooked in previous studies.   Keywords: Adjusted carhart, Malaysian market, market timing, mutual fund, stock selection.   Cite as: Ling, P-S., & Abdul-Rahim, R. (2021). Managerial abilities and factor investment style performances of Malaysian mutual funds.  Journal of Nusantara Studies, 6(1), 118-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss1pp118-135

Mutual Fund Voting and Pension Ties : Evidence from Proxy Voting

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-228
Author(s):  
Heejin Park
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Pension Plan ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Proxy Voting ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Level I ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Business Ties

Because mutual funds are the largest equity holders and because the retirement assets that are managed by mutual funds have been growing, mutual fund managers may have more incentives to support management in order to attract and retain pension business. I explore whether pension business ties have an impact on voting behaviors of mutual funds by examining the link pension business ties between mutual funds and the firms to actual mutual fund voting outcomes. At the fund family level, I find a positive relation between pension ties and mutual funds’ voting support for management. This relation becomes stronger when there is a voting divergence among funds within the same families. At the individual fund level, I find that individual funds are more likely to vote with management if they are included as one of the investment options of the pension plan of their portfolio firms. This suggests that the SEC should at least consider the recent petition from the AFL-CIO proposing that the SEC require mutual funds to disclose business ties with the firms in which they invest.

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.

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