我国基金市场评析

2002年，是我国基金业迅速发展的一年，也可以说是大跨跃的一年。封闭式基金的增加，开放式基金集中推出，有效地促进了中国基金市场的发展。特别是开放式基金的成功发行和商业银行的成功代销为我国开放式基金发展探索了有效途径。我国基金市场的变迁从去年下半年以来，基金扩容步伐骤然加快，到10月末，全国共发行开放式基金14只，募集资金448亿元，占年末封闭、开放式基金总规模的1/3。可谓基金业快速发展，扩容浪潮汹涌澎湃。这次扩容是1998年诞生基金以来的第三次大规模扩容，不少业内人士把基金业发展分为三个阶段。第一次为冲动阶段。…     

我国商业银行拓展基金业务战略研究

近年来,开放式基金迅速成长,成为基金市场一道亮丽的风景线。基金业的发展,为商业银行拓展新型的中间业务提供了巨大的商机。因此,分析我国商业银行基金业务的现状及前景,并进一步研究商业银行发展基金业务的主要策略,就成为一项极具实践性的重要课题。商业银行基金业务现状及发展前景1998年,经中国证监会和中国人民银行核准,工行、农行、中行、建行和交行等五家银行成为国内首批从事基金托管业务的商业银行。2002年底,光大银行和招商银行也取得了基金托管资格。目前,国内10多家银行都在开展开放式基金代销业务。经过五年的发展,现阶段商业…     

开放式基金对商业银行的影响

近几十年来，国际基金业取得了长足的发展，已经成为与银行、证券、保险并重的金融支柱产业，在美国，基金业已超过商业银行成为最大的金融产业，管理的资产规模超过7万亿美元。我国投资基金业经过短短几年时间，也已经发展成为具有一定规模的充满活力的金融产业。自我国证券投资基金发行以来，五大商业银行均以托管人的身份参与了基金的孕育和发展，是基金业成长不可或缺的力量，封闭式基金向开放式基金过渡是国际基金业发展的历史趋势，目前，开放式基金已经成为国际基金市场的主流品种。中国开放式基金即将设立，这将是中国投资基金业发展历程中的一个重大突破。而开放式基金的托管销售对于我国商业银行来说，要是一个全新的业务，它将深刻地影响商业银行传统的经营理念，对于商业银行发展中间业务、改善存款结构、降低筹资成本和提高经济效益，有着重要意义。     

商业银行代销开放式基金的问题与对策研究

开放式基金可以说是一种新型投资工具,自开放式基金面世以来,商业银行拓展中间业务不断产生新产品,同时商业银行作为开放式基金的代销机构为我国开放式基金的发展也开辟了非常可行的途径。然而在基金代销过程中依然存在很多问题。本文围绕当前商业银行代理开放式基金业务面临的困难,提出发展我国商业银行开放式基金代销业务的建议。     

县级农行如何做好代销基金工作

随着我国资本市场的不断发展，开放式基金发行数量不断增多，发行规模不断扩大。农业银行代理销售的基金品种和规模也在不断扩大。托管和代销基金已成为农业银行一项重要的中间业务，不仅丰富了银行的业务品种、为广大客户投资理财提供更多的选择余地，而且给全行带来了可观的中间业务收入，提高了经营效益。代销开放式基金将成为农业银行的重要业务内容和长期工作，县级支行作为农业银行代销基金工作的直接经营者，必须切实做好代销基金工作，积极推动我国资本市场的发展，同时促进自身经营效益的提高。     

开放式基金的运作与商业银行应对

华安基金管理公司被确定为中国证券市场首家开放式证券投资基金（以下简称“开放式基金”）试点单位，这标志着我国基金业已进入开放式基金运作时代。这不仅将对基金业、证券市场等产生深远影响，而且还将对与基金业密切相关的银行业产生重大影响。面对开放式基金的推出和发展，商业银行如何应对？笔者浅谈管见。 商业银行代理和托管开放式基金，将带来许多业务的发展机会，从而有利于商业银行经营状况的改善。 （一）商业银行将成为开放式基金申购和赎回的主渠道。按照《开放式证券投资基金试点办法》（以下简称《办法》）第十八条“商业银…     

商业银行如何拓展代理基金业务

近年来,基金业的发展,为商业银行拓展新型的中间业务提供了巨大的商机。因此,认真研究发展代销基金业务的策略,十分重要。一、基金业务现状及发展前景经过近10年的发展,目前国内已有10多家商业银行以基金托管人、代销人的身份全面介入基金业务,业务范围涵盖封闭式基     

开放式基金运作与商业银行应对

近期,华安基金管理公司被确定为中国证券市场首家开放式证券投资基金(以下简称"开放式基金")试点单位,这标志着我国基金业已进入开放式基金运作时代.这不仅会对基金业、证券市场业务发展产生深远影响,还将对与基金业密切相关的银行业产生重大影响.面对开放式基金的推出和发展,商业银行如何应对?笔者浅谈管见.     

银行经营视角的储蓄、基金代销业务分析

从我国第一只开放式基金诞生以来，商业银行就一直占据基金主要代销机构的角色。这期间，除了货币市场基金孕育时期出现过一段小插曲外，商业银行始终把基金代销业务看作一项重要的银行中间业务，并努力做大这项业务。国家出台多项优惠政策大力发展开放式     

开放式基金运作与商业银行应对

近期，华安基金管理公司被确定为中国证券市场首家开放式证券投资基金（以下简称“开放式基金”）试点单位，这标志着我国基金业已进入了开放式基金运作时代，这不仅将对基金业、证券市场等产生深远影响，而且将还对与基金业密切相关的银行业产生重大影响，面对开放式基金的推出和发展，商业银行如何应对？笔浅谈管见。     

Mutual fund performance and fund prospectus clarity

We conduct a cross-sectional examination of the writing clarity (readability) of mutual fund prospectuses from 20 major US mutual fund families. We focus on the language in the objective/strategy and principal risks sections, using Flesch scores and word counts to measure writing clarity. There is considerable variation in readability among funds and fund families. Flesch readability scores do not vary across fund objective, but within funds, risk discussions are more clear than are discussions of objective/strategy. Generally, the readability of a fund's risk discussion is lower for load funds than no-load funds, and readability increases with fund size and beta and decreases with raw and risk-adjusted three-year returns.     

Mutual fund tournaments and fund Active Share

We study the impact of the tournament-like competition in the mutual fund industry by examining the Active Share choices of funds. Funds with relatively poor performance by the end of the third quarter in a calendar year tend to increase their Active Share during the last quarter. The increase in the trailing funds’ Active Share is accompanied by an increase in the funds’ downside risk exposure. The evidence suggests that the strategic shifts in Active Share we document are not information/skill motivated.     

Mutual fund risk and market share-adjusted fund flows

Several papers use a fractional specification (net inflow/ assets under management) to infer a convex relation between flow and past performance. However, heterogeneous linear response functions combined with the pooled analysis commonly used in these studies can yield false convexity estimates. We show that such heterogeneity obtains in practice. Along these same lines, the paper also finds that several previously unexamined implications of a convex flow-performance relation fail to hold. Moreover, convexity with fractional flows (which we confirm) largely disappears in a conditional analysis that controls for heterogeneity. Market shares offer an alternative specification for flow that is more resilient to heterogeneity. Using this alternative specification, we again find no evidence of convexity in the flow-performance relation. We conclude that the widely held belief that the flow response function is convex is due solely to misspecification of the empirical model. The flow-return relation is linear.     

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Predicting hedge fund performance when fund returns are skewed

We show that fund-specific return skewness is associated with managerial skill and future hedge fund performance. Specifically, skewness in fund returns reflects managerial skill in avoiding large drawdowns. Using a new measure of investment skill that accounts for this managerial ability, we demonstrate that traditional performance measures underestimate (overestimate) managerial performance when returns exhibit positive (negative) fund-specific skewness. Our new measure is particularly valuable during periods of economic crisis, when the annual risk-adjusted outperformance is 5.5%.     

Mutual fund characteristics, managerial attributes, and fund performance

This study provides a comprehensive examination of recent mutual fund performance by analyzing a large set of both mutual funds and fund attributes in an effort to link performance to fund-specific characteristics. The results indicate that the hypothesized relationships between performance and the explanatory variables are generally upheld. After taking into consideration general market conditions and fund investment objective, the characteristic variables that relate to fund popularity, growth, cost, and management also explain performance. Finally, after controlling for survivorship and benchmark error as well as fund-specific factors, the results refute the performance persistence phenomenon.     

Hedge fund leverage

We investigate the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross-section. Hedge fund leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries and decreases prior to the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007. Hedge fund leverage is lowest in early 2009 when the market leverage of investment banks is highest. Changes in hedge fund leverage tend to be more predictable by economy-wide factors than by fund-specific characteristics. In particular, decreases in funding costs and increases in market values both forecast increases in hedge fund leverage. Decreases in fund return volatilities predict future increases in leverage.     

Mutual fund insurance

During the 1970's, mutual fund insurance was sold in the U.S. by the Harleysville and Prudential Insurance Companies. This paper examines the valuation and demand for this insurance. It illustrates that because of its design, for many plausible combinations of model parameters, a competitive premium need not exist for the Harleysville contract. A competitive premium will always exist for the Prudential policy, however the value is directly related to the age of the purchaser. Harleysville charged the same premium to all funds and therefore was subject to adverse selection. Evidence of this effect is provided by illustrating that the demand for the insurance was directly related to its competitive market value.     

The alpha and omega of fund of hedge fund added value

In spite of a somewhat disappointing performance throughout the crisis, investors are showing interest in hedge funds. Still, funds of hedge funds keep on experiencing outflows. Can this phenomenon be explained by the failure of fund of hedge fund managers to deliver on their promise to add value through active management, or is it symptomatic of a move toward greater disintermediation in the hedge fund industry? We introduce a return-based attribution model allowing for a full decomposition of fund of hedge fund performance. The results of our empirical study suggest that funds of hedge funds are funds of funds like others. Strategic allocation turns out to be a crucial step in the investment process, in that it not only adds value over the long-term, but most importantly, it brings resilience precisely when investors need it the most. Fund picking, on the other hand, turns out to be a double-edged sword.     

Dynamic portfolio strategy by loss-averse fund managers facing performance-induced fund flows

In a continuous-time framework, we establish an optimal dynamic portfolio strategy for a loss-averse fund manager facing performance-induced fund flows. Using the martingale approach, we derive closed-form solutions to both the optimal terminal value and optimal dynamic strategy of the fund under management. The model shows that the loss-averse manager strives to earn high returns in good market conditions at the risk of losing all investments at the terminal date in bad market conditions. The prospect of higher fund inflows induced by superior performance motivates fund managers to take more aggressive investment strategies, increasing the fund's risk exposure, whereas the prospect of fund outflows due to underperformance has no impact on the fund manager's investment decision. While the prospect of higher fund inflows increases dynamic optimal wealth as well as optimal terminal wealth in good market conditions, in bad market conditions, it reduces dynamic optimal wealth and results in a higher chance of a complete loss at the terminal date. Finally, a manager with a higher degree of loss aversion tends to take a conservative investment strategy with a lower risk exposure especially in bad market conditions, leading to a lower dynamic and terminal wealth in good market conditions and also a lower chance of a complete loss in bad market conditions.