Fund Flows as Country Allocator

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Size Effect ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Momentum Effect ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Holding Period

In this article, the authors find significant positive returns over a forward one-month holding period for strategies that buy in countries that have attracted indirect investment via equity fund flows and sell in countries that have not. They find that the profitability of these strategies is independent of the momentum effect as well as the size effect.

Market Risk and Equity Fund Flows

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-220
Author(s):  
Yeonjeong Ha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Risk ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Equity Fund

scholarly journals Contrarian and Momentum Strategies in the Indian Capital Market

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Sehgal ◽  
I Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Indian Market ◽  
Momentum Effect ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Momentum Strategy ◽  
Momentum Strategies ◽  
Holding Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
One Year

The study attempts to evaluate if there are any systematic patterns in stock returns for the Indian market. The empirical findings reveal that there is a reversal in long-term returns, once the short-term momentum effect has been controlled by maintaining a one year gap between portfolio formation period and the portfolio holding period. A contrarian strategy based on long-term past returns provides moderately positive returns. Further, there is a continuation in short-term returns and a momentum strategy based on it provides significantly positive payoffs. The results in general are in conformity with those for developed capital markets such as the US.

scholarly journals Does Sustainability Score Impact Mutual Fund Performance?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Durán-Santomil ◽  
Luis Otero-González ◽  
Renato Heitor Correia-Domingues ◽  
Juan Carlos Reboredo
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Socially Responsible Investments ◽  
Mutual Fund Flows ◽  
European Equity

Given that sustainable investing constitutes a major force across global financial markets, in 2016 Morningstar began reporting Morningstar Sustainability scores. We used the 2016, 2017 and 2018 scores to study the effects of socially responsible investments (SRI) on European equity fund performance. Sustainability scores impacted positively on performance, which was consistent with the idea that the mutual funds invested in companies with better scores generate better risk-adjusted and not-risk adjusted performance. We also tested the relation on mutual fund flows and risk. The sustainability score in the previous year is significant on the flows, so higher-rated funds receive a larger volume of funds. In terms of risk, the level of sustainability is negatively related to the value at risk (VaR) of the fund, supporting that higher scored mutual funds offer better protection against extreme losses.

Can mutual fund flows serve as market risk sentiment?

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Hui Chiu ◽  
Lu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Sentiment ◽  
Money Market Funds ◽  
Primary Driver ◽  
Mutual Fund Flows

Purpose This paper aims to examine the information content of mutual fund flows and its indication on investors’ preference/tolerance toward risk. Design/methodology/approach Mutual funds are grouped into different categories based on assets with different levels of risk perceptions (e.g. equity fund, money market fund), and this information is publicly accessible. This paper examines the correlation patterns between fund flows and changes in credit default swaps (CDS) spreads. In addition, it also examines such a relation by dividing the samples into different fund types (e.g. retail vs institutional fund flows). Findings This paper suggests that equity fund flows are negatively related to CDS spreads, whereas money market fund flows are positively related to CDS spreads. Furthermore, it indicates that retail fund flows provide insightful information and serve as the primary driver behind the relation between fund flows and CDS spreads. Originality/value The findings of this paper indicate that flows into equity and money market funds could serve as a risk sentiment in credit markets. And this is the first study, to the best of the author’s knowledge, to establish such a linkage between fund flows and CDS spreads to help investors gauge credit market sentiment.

scholarly journals Volatility Contagion across the Equity Markets of Developed and Emerging Market Economies

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Masazumi Hattori ◽  
Ilhyock Shim ◽  
Yoshihiko Sugihara
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Equity Markets ◽  
Emerging Market Economies ◽  
Fund Flows ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Using variance risk premiums (VRPs) nonparametrically calculated from equity markets in selected major developed economies and emerging market economies (EMEs) over 2007–15, this chapter documents the correlation of VRPs across markets, examining whether equity fund flows work as a path through which VRPs spill over globally. It finds that VRPs tend to spike up during market turmoil such as the peak of the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis; that all cross-equity market correlations of VRPs are positive, and that some economy pairs exhibit high levels of the correlation. In terms of volatility contagion, it finds that an increase in US VRPs significantly reduces equity fund flows to other developed economies, but not those to EMEs, following the global financial crisis. Two-stage least squares estimation results show that equity fund flows are a channel for spillover of US VRPs to VRPs in other developed economies.

scholarly journals Momentum effect in stocks’ returns between the rational and the behavioural financial theories

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faten Zoghlami
Keyword(s):  
Size Effect ◽  
Excess Return ◽  
Momentum Effect ◽  
Excess Returns ◽  
Momentum Strategy ◽  
Momentum Strategies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Full Rationality

The puzzling momentum strategies’ payoffs are defying the rational financial theory asserting the stocks returns’ unpredictability. Moreover, the momentum effect persist the main stocks returns’ anomaly escaping any risk-based explanation. The resilience of this phenomenon had favoured the development of behavioural financial field, which breaks with the investor’ full rationality hypothesis. This paper attempts to reconcile between the rational and behavioural financial theories, through the introduction of the progressive rationality concept. Especially, we argue that recognizing the temporary inappropriate investors’ reactions; can resolve the puzzling momentum anomaly.  To fulfil our objective, first we correct the monthly returns inherent to 56 stocks listed on the Tunisian stocks market from January 1998 to December 2011, from the related serial autocorrelations involved by the investors’ over and under reactions. Then, we examine the 6/6 momentum strategy’ excess returns before and after the monthly returns serial autocorrelations’ corrections. The result show that the momentum strategy is still profitable but no longer puzzling, since the related excess return is henceforth fully captured by a β and a size effect..

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