The discount control mechanisms that closed-end funds often choose to adopt before IPO are supposedly implemented to narrow the difference between share price and net asset value, We find evidence that non-discretionary discount control mechanisms such as mandatory continuation votes serve as...

The quality and diversity of a fund’s investment team has long been viewed as a critical part of its success and a potential driver of performance. Yet because active fund management still lacks gender diversity, there are likely additional benefits to be realized.This study leverages a novel...

This article examines US closed-end funds using a sample of 603 closed-end funds from the period 2010 to 2020. The sample is free of survivorship bias. We find evidence of long-term managerial positive persistence. Performance is measured by Jensen’s alpha based on regression models such as...

This article examines the performance persistence of 603 closed-end funds over the period January 2010 to January 2020. We used a sample free of survivorship bias and measure performance using risk adjusted measures. Ten out of the twenty three categories showed high values of the Treynor,...

We check performance persistence of closed-end funds in terms of both market price returns and net asset value average returns in each category. In addition, we use regression models to test market timing ability. We use the entire population of 603 closed-end funds over the period 01/01/2010 to...

In this study we utilise artificial neural networks to classify equity investment funds according to two fundamental risk measures - standard deviation and beta ratio - and to investigate the fund characteristics essential to this classification. Based on a sample of 4,645 monthly observations...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...

The portfolio flows of institutional investors have been found to be highly persistent across countries and individual investment funds. This paper investigates the source of this persistence in emerging market equities. We employ the decomposition methodology of Froot and Tjornhom (2002), which...

This paper shows that low-expense index funds draw investor attention to a fund family, and the investors' subsequent incomplete search within funds in the family raises flows of actively managed funds in the same family by 10%. These spillover effects are more salient among retail investors and...

A lot of ETFs and mutual funds have come on the scene in the last 5 years with the label 'Tax Efficient' or 'Tax Managed'. But on a post-tax basis are these funds worth the higher fees? We look at each tax managed fund and compare it to its non-tax managed counterpart -- yielding 102 funds in...

Aim of the study is to determine the better performance measure during the financial crisis. In order to do so, we selected the pandemic period during the Jan to Jul 2020 and analyzed the different performance ratios for our sample of 1416 Indian equity funds. Then we ranked them based on...

We show that mutual fund managers' trading experiences bias their future repurchasing decisions. Specifically, a fund is 17% more likely to repurchase a stock when it previously sold the stock for a gain rather than for a loss. Fund managers still prefer to repurchase stocks they sold for a gain...

Although the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has gained increasing attention among investors, the extent to which ESG is compensated systematically in the market remains to be investigated. On the outperformance of responsible investing (RI) which incorporates ESG into investment...

In India capital market provide various investment avenues to the investors, to assist them to take a position in various industries and to make sure the profitable return. Among various financial products, open-end fund ensures the minimum risks and maximum return to the investors, Growth, and...

We collect compensation policy data from 60 Chinese mutual fund companies, which covers 88% of assets under management by all active stock and stock-oriented hybrid mutual funds in China. Using the collected data, we investigate the portfolio pumping from a performance-based perspective. We find...

Despite common wisdom that equities and bonds are segmented, the organization structure of fund families can offset frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within a mutual fund family exhibit a significant...

We ask whether a portfolio of large-cap mutual funds in India generates any diversification benefits as compared to holding a single large-cap index tracking exchange-traded fund. Using a mix of traditional measures like correlation and covariance of excess returns, and measures like tracking...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...

In this study, we explore the consistency of Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) - denominated equity mutual funds offered in Indonesia from 2007 to 2017 from various holding periods, namely one year, three years, and five years. Two questions are addressed. Will the winning mutual funds be the winner in...

Despite common wisdom that equities and bonds are segmented, the organization structure of fund families can offset frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within a mutual fund family exhibit a significant...

This Policy Letter presents a proposal for designing a program of government assistance for firms hurt by the Coronavirus crisis in the European Union (EU). In our recent Policy Letter 81, we introduced a new, equity-type instrument, a cash-against-tax surcharge scheme, bundled across firms and...

This paper updates the performance of those equity long/short mutual funds analyzed in “Hedge Funds Versus Hedged Mutual Funds: An Examination of Long/Short Funds” (The Journal of Alternative Investments, Winter 2014) (McCarthy, 2014). Section 1 of this paper focuses on the period July 2013...

Despite the conventional wisdom that the equity and bond markets are segmented, the organizational structure of mutual fund families facilitates information integration between shareholders and creditors, and thus offsets frictions that cause cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively...

We use an asset-weighted composite corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund score to study the effects of CSR on fund performance and flows. Compared to low-CSR funds, high-CSR funds display poorer performance, stronger performance persistence, a weaker performance-flow relationship, and...

We examine contemporaneous and dynamic relationship among equity fund flows, market returns, and market risk in China by applying structural vector autoregression (SVAR) and reduced-form VAR models using monthly and quarterly data over the period of 2005–2016. Results from the reduced-form VAR...