Study of the Skills of Balanced Fund Managers in Poland

The market timing is one of the active methods used by portfolio managers to do their investments more effective. It allows to separate management skills on a micro and macro scale. The market timing applies to the appropriate selection of assets for the portfolio and the right moment to change its structure. The aim of the presented research was to check whether the managers of balanced open-end mutual funds operating on the Polish market apply market timing skills. Nine balanced funds have been accepted for the research, which have existed since at least 2003 year. WIBOR 1M was used as the risk-free rate, and the market factors were the main WSE indexes