scholarly journals Why do Fund Managers Increase the Lottery-Like Characteristics of the Fund?

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 557-592
Author(s):  
Minyeon Han ◽  
Hyoung-goo Kang ◽  
Kyoung Hun Bae
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
And Performance

We investigate why fund managers invest in lottery-like stocks and whether the behavior that holds more lottery-like stocks affects performance. First, mutual funds that hold more lottery stocks may attract more fund flows. Our results support the theory that fund managers invest more in lottery-like stocks to reflect investors' preferences for extreme payoffs. Second, the level of lottery-like characteristics of mutual funds does not predict managers’ skill and performance. Therefore, fund managers holding more lottery stocks is not a result of managers’ skills. Third, lottery-like characteristics of mutual funds do not significantly affect performance in specific reporting periods (e.g., year-end or quarter-end). Based on this result, we conclude that fund managers do not invest more in lottery stocks to advance their career.

Sustainability-themed mutual funds: an empirical examination of risk and performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Ielasi ◽  
Monica Rossolini ◽  
Sara Limberti
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Sustainable And Responsible Investment ◽  
Ethical Funds

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the portfolio characteristics and the performance measures of sustainability-themed mutual funds, compared to ethical mutual funds that implement different sustainable and responsible investment strategies.Design/methodology/approachThe study refers to a European sample of 106 ethical funds and 51 sustainability-themed funds. The monthly performance of each fund is downloaded from Bloomberg for the period from January 1996 to December 2015. By applying a Fama and French (1993) three-factor model, the authors overcome the limits of a capital asset pricing model (CAPM) based-single index model, to compare the performance of the two categories of funds.FindingsSustainability-themed funds do not differ significantly from ethical funds in terms of portfolio attributes, except for market capitalization, age and net asset value. Regarding performance measures, the results shows that sustainability-themed funds have a lower underperformance than ethical funds (as measured by Jensen’s alpha), whereas the samples do not differ in terms of market risk (as measured by Beta coefficient). The idiosyncratic risk of sustainability-themed funds is positively influenced by the specific portfolio strategies. The sustainability-themed funds show a higher concentration in the industrial sector and a lower exposure to financial sector than ethical funds; in terms of geographical strategy, they are more global and international oriented; they mainly focus on small caps and value stocks.Research limitations/implicationsThe different sustainable and responsible investment strategies can be applied simultaneously and in a growing number of possible combinations. Mutual fund managers can consider thematic approach as an efficient opportunity for reconciling financial performance and economic sustainability. It is demonstrated that sustainability-themed funds adopt a portfolio strategy significantly different from ethical funds and from the environmental, social and governance benchmarks. Mutual fund managers implement a thematic specialization without any negative impact on the funds returns compared to ethical funds; actually, with a proper diversified portfolio, they are able to reduce idiosyncratic risk.Originality/valueThe analysis is extremely innovative, especially for the thematic sample. During the past 15 years, literature about sustainable and responsible investment has been focused especially on the differences in terms of risk and performance between socially responsible and conventional funds. This paper, starting from the methodology applied in these studies, wants to compare two different types of socially responsible strategies, with a specific focus on sustainability-themed mutual funds, given their exponential growth in the past few years.

Behavior of investor flows in Israeli provident funds

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-356
Author(s):  
Ofer Arbaa ◽  
Eva Varon
Keyword(s):  
Poor Performance ◽  
Fixed Effect ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Provident Fund

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the sensitivity of provident fund investors to past performance and how market conditions, changes in risk and liquidity levels influence the net flows into provident funds by using a unique sample from Israel. Design/methodology/approach The study checks the impact of different levels of fund performance on provident fund flows using three alternative proxies for performance: raw return and the risk adjusted returns based on the Sharpe ratio and the Jensen’s α. The analysis relies on the time fixed effect and fund fixed effect regression models. Findings Results reveal that there exists an approximately concave flow–performance relationship and performance persistence among Israeli provident funds. Israeli provident fund investors are risk averse so they overreact to bad performance both in bull and bear markets. Moreover, liquidity is an important factor to influence the flow–performance curve. The investors’ strong negative response to poor performance and relative insensitivity to outperformance show that provident fund managers are not rewarded for their risk-shifting activities as in mutual funds. Originality/value The authors explore the behavior of investor flows in non-institutional retirement savings funds specifically outside of the USA, which is a topic not properly investigated in literature. Moreover, examining inflows and outflows separately gives the authors a richer understanding of investors in pension schemes. This study also enhances the understanding of the impact of fund liquidity on the flow–performance relationship for the retirement funds segment.

How Does Deleveraging Affect Funding Market Liquidity?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Buhui Qiu ◽  
Gary Gang Tian ◽  
Haijian Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Cash Holdings ◽  
Market Liquidity ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

How does deleveraging affect the market liquidity of high-embedded-leverage securities issued by financial institutions and the funding constraints of these institutions? We use the forced deleveraging of structured mutual funds during the 2015 Chinese stock market crash to study the effects of deleveraging. Our regression-discontinuity analysis shows that deleveraging significantly reduces the market liquidity of the deleveraging funds’ equity units. Moreover, our difference-in-differences analysis shows that deleveraging results in large decreases in subsequent fund flows, stock and cash holdings, and performance, with the impact channeled through the deterioration of the market liquidity of the fund’s equity units. This paper was accepted by Victoria Ivashina, finance.

A Critical Analysis of Selected Public and Private Mutual Fund Schemes in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Dr. V. Murali Krishna ◽  
Dr T. Hima Bindu ◽  
Dr. Ravikumar Gunakala
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Portfolio Diversification ◽  
Financial Intermediaries ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Fixed Base ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Different Levels

Mutual Fund Industry is one of the emerged dominant financial intermediaries in Indian Capital Market. The main objective of investing in a mutual fund is to diversify risk. Though the mutual fund invests in diversified portfolio, the fund managers take different levels of risk in order to achieve the schemes objectives. Mutual funds allow portfolio diversification and relative risk management through collection of funds from the savers/investors, the same investing in equity and debt stocks. This type of invested funds is managed by professional experts called as fund managers Funds are categorized as income should fixed base in India are a kind of mutual fund which makes investment in debt securities that have been issued to the corporate, banking institutions and to government in general

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