scholarly journals Factors Influencing Investment in Mutual Fund Schemes of Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Dipesh Pote Shrestha ◽  
Yogesh Man Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Investment Pattern ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Offering

The history of mutual funds in Nepal began with the introduction of “NCM Mutual Fund 2050” in 1993. The Mutual Fund Regulation, 2010 has played an important role in development of Mutual funds as momentous progress can be observed after its implementation. The mutual fund sector has raised Rs. 17.49 billion through public offering and this figure is projected to reach Rs. 19.79 billion by the end of FY 2019/20. Considering the momentous growth in the mutual fund industry this study attempts to analyse the investment pattern of Nepalese mutual fund Investors based on various parameters. This study also attempts to identify the critical factors influencing investment in mutual fund schemes of Nepal. The results indicate that the investors are moderately averse to mutual fund schemes. The results further show that the investors chose mutual fund schemes, being relied on key performance indicators of Mutual funds and their perception towards several aspects of mutual fund schemes. Moreover, fund managers’ qualities and corporate governance factors are considered important though the results are not statistically significant.

Characteristics of Successful Hedge Fund Managers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashrafee T. Hossain ◽  
Samir Saadi ◽  
Maxim Treff
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Hedge Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hedge Fund Performance

Managerial skill is a key determinant of a hedge fund’s success. Identifying the key characteristics of successful managers is important because of a strong relation between hedge fund performance and managerial skills. This chapter provides a brief history of some highly successful hedge fund managers as well as a discussion of the different demands of the hedge fund industry versus other pooled investments, such as mutual funds. Furthermore, the chapter examines the differences between hedge fund and mutual fund managers involving return expectations, performance measures, and compensation. Next the chapter explores the key characteristics that hedge fund managers should possess to be successful. Although some characteristics are easy to identify and measure, others are less so. The chapter also includes a detailed discussion of social versus human capital.

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

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

Style and Skill: Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and Momentum

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (12) ◽  
pp. 5505-5531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Grinblatt ◽  
Gergana Jostova ◽  
Lubomir Petrasek ◽  
Alexander Philipov
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Hedge Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Hedge Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Short Sales ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Liquidity Provision ◽  
Stock Picking ◽  
Hedge Fund Performance

Classifying mandatory 13F stockholding filings by manager type reveals that hedge fund strategies are mostly contrarian, and mutual fund strategies are largely trend following. The only institutional performers—the two thirds of hedge fund managers that are contrarian—earn alpha of 2.4% per year. Contrarian hedge fund managers tend to trade profitably with all other manager types, especially when purchasing stocks from momentum-oriented hedge and mutual fund managers. Superior contrarian hedge fund performance exhibits persistence and stems from stock-picking ability rather than liquidity provision. Aggregate short sales further support these conclusions about the style and skill of various fund manager types. This paper was accepted by Tyler Shumway, finance.

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 Investing in the “New Economy”: Mutual Fund Performance and the Nature of the Firm

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Physical Assets

AbstractAlthough stock returns of intangibles-intensive firms tend to exceed physical assets-intensive firms, risk-adjusted returns of actively managed mutual funds significantly decrease (increase) with their portfolios’ exposure to intangibles-intensive (physical assets-intensive) firms. Fund managers tend to exhibit skill when they focus on difficult-to-value (e.g., small) firms, except when the firms are intangibles-intensive. In sum, the worst-performing funds are in areas of the market that seem to offer ample opportunities for professional investors due to exacerbated mispricing. The negative impact of investments in intangibles-intensive firms on fund performance appears to be driven by extrapolation bias and decreases with learning from experience.

scholarly journals The Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Mutual Funds Performance in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Cai Li ◽  
Rosemond Atampokah ◽  
Helena Akolpoka ◽  
Priscilla Avonie ◽  
Baku R. Kwame
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Foreign Portfolio Investment ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
The Impact

Development across the globe has been an agenda many citizens of the world champion irrespective of the area, sector or discipline within which it is being advocated. Politically, socially, and in the world of economics, mutual fund has gained significance within country’s economic environment. The phenomenal growth in the financial market of mutual funds can be attributed to the increase in the various financial schemes available, improvement in fund mobilization, as well as the growth of investments in the country. We examined the impact of macroeconomic variables on mutual fund performance of all mutual fund companies in Ghana over the period of 2008 to 2016. We performed correlation analysis, hence examined the co-movement of the returns from the selected funds with the key macroeconomic variables. We find macroeconomics variables positively affect the returns of funds. The effect comes by the amount of money available for investments. We further find exchange rate as the strongest macroeconomic variable affects the performance of mutual funds in Ghana. We established that Ghana receives a significant amount of foreign portfolio investment (FPI), where investors in other countries bring in their money to make investment on our financial markets. Our results provide evidence for fund managers on approach in dealing with macroeconomic conditions and its volatilities.

scholarly journals Growth and Value Effect on Jakarta Islamic Index: Analysis towards Performance of Sharia Equity Mutual Fund

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylva Alif Rusmita ◽  
Marhanum Che Mohd Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Risk And Return ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Index Analysis ◽  
Asset Value ◽  
Net Asset Value ◽  
Value Effect

This study provides evidence that value and stocks’ growth able to explain Net Asset Value of Shariah Mutual Fund. It is important for investment managers and investors to estimate future profit or loss that may happen on their mutual funds prior they venture into the investment platform. This study therefore is conducted to prove that factors including value and growth may affect the future profit of Shariah Mutual Funds. Based on quantitative analysis with secondary data from companies indexed in the Jakarta Islamic Index and Sharia Mutual Fund from year 2013 to 2017, it is found that both growth and value of stock have equally affected the profit of Sharia Mutual Funds. In addition, growth of stock has a larger R-Square than its value which means that the investors or fund managers would need to observe the stock growth more often than its value in order to predict future profitability of Shariah funds.  It is expected that the results of this study can provide additional insight to investment managers when choosing a portfolio for investors. For investors, this information is useful to predict the risk and return that they will receive from the investment.

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.

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