The Mutual Fund—An Institutional Investor that Acts Like an Individual

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Usrey ◽  
Edward Schnee ◽  
Gary Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Institutional Investor ◽  
Capital Gains ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Tax Relief

ABSTRACT: We examine changes in the average mutual fund’s investments following the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRR). The JGTRR decreased the tax penalty on dividend and capital gains income. We hypothesize that mutual fund managers will respond to the investment preferences of the underlying shareholders and increase their ownership of dividend-paying firms. We present evidence supporting the hypothesis that mutual fund managers increased their ownership of dividend-paying firms following the JGTRR. However, we do not find evidence that the investment managers of other institutional investors increased their ownership of dividend-paying firms following the JGTRR. These results indicate that mutual funds are influenced by the tax preferences of their underlying investors, form tax clienteles, and exhibit different investment policies when compared to other types of institutional investors.

scholarly journals Sub-Par Performance In A Sub-Prime World? A Recent Comparative Performance Analysis Of Real Estate Mutual Funds Vs. Common Stock Mutual Funds

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Kuhle ◽  
Rafiqul Bhuyan
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Real Estate Investments ◽  
Real Estate Assets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Historically, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">little evidence has been found to suggest that real estate investments exhibit superior returns. Further, it appears that real estate mutual fund managers do not possess the ability to consistently beat benchmark averages. However, there have been mixed results for REITs indicating they might be characterized by inefficiencies that could be exploited by informed fund managers. In this analysis, we examine whether mutual fund managers who have concentrated in real estate assets have statistically outperformed other categories of equity mutual funds as well as the S&amp;P 500 and various NAREIT Indexes. </span></span></p>

scholarly journals Manager-Investor Conflicts in Mutual Funds

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Retirement Accounts ◽  
Regulatory Proposals

Half of all of U.S. households own shares in one or more mutual funds, either directly or through personal or employer-sponsored retirement accounts. This article describes the structure and regulation of mutual funds and the resulting incentives facing those who make decisions for the funds. After providing some basic institutional details, it focuses on the cash flows from mutual fund investors to fund managers, brokers, and other third parties and the associated conflicts of interest. The article concludes with a summary of recent legal proceedings against mutual fund managers and brokers based on improper trading practices and regulatory proposals to curb those practices.

scholarly journals Mutual Fund Performance in Slovenia: An Analysis of Mutual Funds with Investment Policies in Europe and the Energy Sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Hribernik ◽  
Uroš Vek
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Mutual Fund Performance ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Information Ratio ◽  
Risk And Return ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
Fund Managers

Mutual Fund Performance in Slovenia: An Analysis of Mutual Funds with Investment Policies in Europe and the Energy Sector This paper examines the risk and return performance of mutual funds in Slovenia from 2005 until August 2009. The research is limited to the regional investment policies in Europe and the energy sector. Using monthly returns, we analyzed different risk-adjusted measures such as: the Treynor ratio, the Sortino ratio and the Information ratio. We also studied selections and timing ability using the Treynor-Mazuy model. The risk and return performance of mutual funds in the Slovenian market does not deviate from those in developed markets. We also found out that the selection ability of fund managers is better than market timing and that the findings of this paper are in accordance with other international studies.

Dynamic Liquidity Preferences of Mutual Funds

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050018
Author(s):  
Jiekun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Large Panel ◽  
Dynamic Preferences

This paper examines the relation between expected market volatility and open-end mutual funds’ liquidity preferences. Using a large panel of actively managed U.S. equity mutual funds, I show that mutual fund managers hold more cash and tilt their holdings more heavily towards liquid stocks during periods when expected market volatility is high. Cross-sectional tests suggest that the dynamic preferences for liquidity are driven by concerns over investor withdrawals during volatile times. Furthermore, I find evidence that this type of dynamic behavior leads to higher fund returns.

scholarly journals THE EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS BASED ON DARA, CARA, IARA

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Tavakoli Baghdadabad ◽  
Farid Habibi Tanha ◽  
Noreha Halid
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Dea Model ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
The Impact

We evaluate the efficiency of mutual fund managers of 20 different classes of management styles to identify the most efficient strategies and to propose an optimal pattern in selecting the funds by investors. We collect monthly data of 17,686 US mutual funds for a five-year period 2005–2010 to minimize the impact of survivorship bias and use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the mutual fund performance. The set of considered inputs comprised “variance”, representing the mutual fund risk, and “turnover, expense ratio and loads indicators”, reflecting the mutual fund costs and fees. Two kinds of outputs are taken into account by our DEA model, “portfolio return” and “stochastic dominance indicators”. As a unique contribution, we state the benefits of the DEA approach in the DARA, CARA, and IARA framework, and evaluate the efficiency of mutual funds based on fund strategies as well as the performance of best mutual funds among their group. The evidence shows that the efficiency scores of technical, management, and scale are respectively 0.81, 0.921, and 0.874 for the DARA model, while the efficiency scores of two models of CARA and IARA are negligible. Also, we rank each management strategy in any model based on two methods – the number of referencing and the weighted value so that the managers of inefficient strategies must pattern the managers’ ability of reference (efficient) strategies to improve their efficiency on the fund market in future.

Testing the skill of mutual fund managers: evidence from India

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 806-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Sharma ◽  
Samit Paul
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Investor Expectations

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to utilize a constrained random portfolio-based framework for measuring the skill of a cross-section of Indian mutual fund managers. Specifically, the authors test whether the observed performance implies superior investment skill on the part of mutual fund managers. Additionally, the authors investigate the suitability of mutual fund investments under diverse investor expectations. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a new skill measurement methodology based on a cross-section of constrained random portfolios (Burns, 2007). Findings – The authors find no evidence of superior investment skill in the sample of Indian equity mutual funds. Using a series of statistical tests, the authors conclude that the mutual funds fail to outperform the random portfolios. Furthermore, mutual funds show no persistence in their performance over time. These results are robust to choice of performance measure and the investment horizon. However, mutual funds provide lower downside risks and may be suitable for investors with high degree of risk aversion. Originality/value – The authors extend Burns’ (2007) methodology in several aspects, especially by using a much wider range of performance and downside risk measures to address diverse investor expectations. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is first study to apply the constrained random portfolios-based skill tests in an emerging market.

scholarly journals Do Equity Mutual Fund Managers Possess efficient Stock Selection Skills?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 5773-5780
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Fund Manager ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Investment Firm ◽  
Research Document ◽  
Stock Investments

With a primary and single intent, Investors wants to take a position his hard earning money in such investment product which generate higher returns to him . Bunch of Investment options are there for Today’s Investors in this financial world, starting from Equity Stock investments to Gold, from property to Fixed Deposit and From Mutual Funds to Investments in Commodities. Supported risk craving & return desire, Investors can select from these investment avenues. Lagging in knowledge, experience & resources for directly accessing the capital market, also investors generally don’t have adequate time, they need to depend upon a mediator, which undertakes informed investment decisions & provides substantial benefits of professional proficiency. Therefore investment firm has been came with this plus point for such kind of investors through which they’ll have also access to capital market indirectly. A mutual fund is that the best suited investment for the ordinary saver because it proposes a chance to take a position in a diversified, professionally managed hamper of securities at a moderately squat price.Usually, the main focus in evaluating the performance of a mutual fund has been on fund manager’s skill available in stock selection. This paper is a pragmatic measurement of the performance of mutual fund managers in terms of “Stock selectivity”, within the structure suggested by Eugene Fama (1972). The study examines the performance of 34 Equity Linked Saving Schemes. The reference period for the study is January 2015 to December 2019. Stock selection is that the nub within the investment administration & management process. It involves identifying and selecting undervalued securities which among other things requires the successful forecasting of the corporate specific events or a capability to predict the final behavior of security prices within the future. If the fund manager is in a position to spot and choose the undervalued securities for the portfolio, then it’ll be possible for the fund manager to extend the returns of the schemes and vice versa. In practice fund managers are expected to produce advanced returns for unit holders Constantly as being professionals therefore possess superior skills to gather and analyze the information with the aim to pick the correct style of securities for the portfolio. In this research document stock selectivity skills of fund managers of Equity Linked Savings Scheme were dissected by using Jensen’s Alpha and Fama’s net selectivity measure. The upshot of the study reveal that bulk of the schemes has shown assenting alpha and most of the fund managers possess finer selectivity skills

scholarly journals Manager Tenure - Real Estate Mutual Fund (REMF) Versus Equity Mutual Fund Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
James L. Kuhle
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Real Estate Assets

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Historically, mixed evidence has been reported suggesting that mutual fund managers exhibit superior returns based on the length of their tenure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, the result of tenure performance for real estate mutual fund managers has been reported with mixed results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, it is the purpose of this research to consider the effect of management tenure on the overall performance of various classes of equity mutual funds, including those funds that invest exclusively in real estate assets. These results are studied over periods of three, five, and ten-year manager tenure to determine if there is significantly better performance among various tenure groups. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals Is It Who You Know or What You Know? Evidence from IPO Allocations and Mutual Fund Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 2491-2523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan-Yang Hwang ◽  
Sheridan Titman ◽  
Yuxi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Initial Public Offerings ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Mutual Fund Performance ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Elite Universities

Mutual fund managers with degrees from elite universities tend to outperform their counterparts from less elite universities. We show that the better performance of elite graduates is generated from their better connections with underwriters that facilitate allocations to underpriced initial public offerings (IPOs). Indeed, we find that the funds outperformonlyin months when they are connected to underwriters issuing IPOs. A strategy of buying mutual funds in months when they are connected to underwriters scheduled to issue IPOs generates significant abnormal returns, as high as 4.08% per annum in hot markets.

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