This study provides the first long-run analysis of the skill of active Australian equity fund managers based on trades inferred from a market-wide database of monthly portfolio holdings over the period 1994-2009. In addition to confirming previous findings that skill exists amongst active...

We investigate optimal investment and drawdown decisions in retirement, and show that the asset mix and drawdown strategy vary significantly with financial circumstances and preferences. Loss aversion preferences lead to hedging strategies to secure the target consumption through use of...

We interview professional institutional investors to learn how they choose between active and passive management, select active equity managers and construct multi-manager portfolios. We find that many of the aspects emphasized in the fund management literature, such as returns generated by the...

Default investment options in retirement plans are a potent influence on member choice. Little is known about how plans set them. We investigate how retirement plan providers choose default investment strategies for passive members. We interview plan executives and survey members during a review...

In 2009, Arnott, Li, and Sherrerd asked how a clairvoyant investor—an investor who can see the future cash flows that a company will deliver to its shareholders and an eventual resale price—would have valued individual stocks. By examining past share prices in the context of subsequent...

We use portfolio holdings data to examine the performance of 143 global equity funds over the period 2002 to 2012. We find that the average global equity manager outperforms their benchmark by 1.2% to 1.4% per annum before fees. Attribution analysis reveals that the prime source of excess return...

An approach for designing a menu of comprehensive income products for retirement (CIPRs) is proposed and demonstrated. The approach entails for steps: defining and characterising member types based on selected attributes; specifying a utility function to capture the objectives and preferences of...

We show how active share can be decomposed into segment and stock-specific exposures to create an active share risk profile. The method is demonstrated for global equity portfolios by attributing active share into contributions from country, sector, stock-specific, and non-equity positions...