中国开放式基金风格轮换能力研究

该文通过建立基金风格轮换能力检验模型,从市场择时、小盘/大盘、价值/成长和惯性四种风格层面,对在2004年之前成立的32只开放武股票型基金实证研究.结果发现基金总体上有显著的小盘/大盘风格轮换能力,但没有表现出显著的选股能力、市场择时能力和价值/成长风格轮换能力,有证据显示基金普遍采取了激进的正反馈投资策略,这尤其在熊市时期表现更为突出.     

基于FF五因子模型的基金投资风格分析模型扩展研究

本文基于FF五因子模型将基金投资风格分类扩展为大-小市值、成长-价值、高-低盈利能力和高-低投资增速四个尺度。实证研究结果表明:(1)相对于FF三因子模型,FF五因子模型对我国基金投资风格及其持续性具有更强的解释力,同时利用不同检验期的数据进行回归分析,可以使扩展的基金投资风格分析模型能够更好地反映基金投资组合的迅速变化,时效性更强,从而能够更好地反映我国基金市场的变化特征;(2)我国基金业整体和基金经理更换分组并没有表现出获取超额收益率的能力,成长型和高盈利能力型投资风格在短期和中期内具有持续性;(3)基金经理未更换分组的情况下能够获取超额收益率,投资风格不具有持续性。     

指数基金也会“玩性格”

投资者在选择基金时,常常会关心基金的风格,比如是大盘价值还是小盘成长。其实即使是跟着指数亦步亦趋的指数基金,也因其跟踪标的不同而拥有不同的"性格"。     

震荡格局不变 延续哑铃配置

我们判断大盘调整的格局或将延续较长一段时间,因此建议投资者维持较为防御的投资态度和哑铃式配置结构,即在保持相对谨慎的前提下,重点配置重仓防御性较强的低估值板块的大盘蓝筹基金,适当配置重仓收益政策的战略性新兴产业的中小盘成长基金。     

美国:灵活策略国际基金选哪只

在次贷危机的背景下,美国的灵活策略国际基金凭借既能投资成熟市场的大盘型股票,也可投资于新兴市场的小盘型股票的灵活多变的投资风格而颇受青睐.此类基金不仅可以作为国际基金单独持有,也可以作为投资组合的卫星型基金(即在投资组合里处于辅助地位的基金).也就是说,一只投资分散的增长型国际基金,可以作为一只保守的大盘型价值国际基金的卫星基金.     

2011年回首怎一个“乱”字了得

市场风格方面，前三季度基金市场表现三种不同的市场风格，一季度，贯穿2010年中小盘风格市场行情转换为估值修复的大盘蓝筹风格；二季度随着经济增长预期减速的迹象逐渐显现。市场风格逐渐向业绩稳定增长的中盘蓝筹股转移；三季度则是中小盘成长股表现抗跌。     

银河证券:中小盘股投资价值凸显 诺安中小盘基金表现可期

作为一只风格鲜明的中小盘基金,诺安中小盘股票型基金将投资于具备良好成长潜力及合理估值水平的中小市值股票,在有效控制风险的基础上,力图实现基金资产价值的长期增值。在资产配置上,该基金将以基金资产的60%-95%投资于股票市场,并将其中80%的股票资产投资于中小盘股,以充分分享中小盘股的成长收益。值得一提的是,在投资策略上,诺安中小盘基金采取长期资产配置和短期资产配置相结合     

我国开放式基金业绩持续性影响因素探析

本文运用参数法选取我国成立时间较早的40只开放式基金作为研究样本进行业绩持续性检验,在确定的业绩持续性期间内,采用逐步回归法探讨影响开放式基金业绩持续性的显著因素.通过分析,基金投资风格分类中的成长型投资风格、单个基金评价期内的持股集中度是影响国内开放式基金业绩持续性的显著因素.     

证券投资基金的投资风格分析与比较

本文采用基于组合的风格分析方法,对6家中国基金管理公司所管理的30只股票型基金的投资风格进行了实证检验,发现这些股票型证券投资基金的投资风格特征都集中于大盘规模型和风格不一的价值、成长及平衡型,且同一基金管理公司所管理的基金在同一时点的投资风格有趋同现象;此外,还发现有些基金在契约合同中所公布的投资风格与实际检验出的投资风格不尽一致.     

震荡市下 关注中小盘成长基金的超额获益能力

经历过2007—2008—2009年"牛—熊—牛"的快速市场转折之后,风格配置策略已经成基金投资的重要策略。大盘和中小盘市场风格轮动是股市     

基金业绩排名与基金经理的冒险行为

本文利用2005-2010年间开放式股票型和混合型基金的数据,研究年度基金业绩排名对基金经理冒险行为的影响。与相对业绩排名激励机制会导致基金经理过度冒险的假设相一致,本文发现,年中业绩排名靠后的基金经理(输家)在下半年提高所持有资产组合的风险的程度要大于年中业绩排名靠前的基金经理(赢家)。进一步研究发现,基金经理提高下半年所持有资产组合的风险并不能显著提高下半年基金的业绩。特别是在熊市中,提高下半年所持有资产组合的风险反而显著降低了基金下半年的业绩。     

Performance persistence and style consistency of Indian fixed income mutual funds – A longitudinal study

In this study, we evaluate the performance of Indian fixed-income mutual funds using a comprehensive sample over a ten-year period from April 2010 to March 2020. We examine performance persistence of 190 fixed income funds across 16 fund categories and analyze investment style of the most persistent and top performing funds. We assess performance persistence using recursive portfolio formation test, and analyze investment style using Sharpe's (1992) asset class factor model supplemented with Lobosco and diBartolomeo (1997) approach for statistical robustness. We also study the correlation between performance persistence and style consistency and find persistent funds to be less consistent in style. Our findings indicate that a substantial proportion (73%) of the funds considered were under-performers. Our results pertaining to style analysis indicate substantial drift in investment style from regulator-mandated investment objectives. Further, the study nudges regulators to revisit the prevailing practice of fund classification based on Macaulay's duration. In light of the growing prominence of Indian fixed income securities, the findings of this study are all the more pertinent to investors, asset management companies and policy makers.     

中国公募基金挖掘了股票市场异象吗？

公募基金是我国重要的机构投资者之一,分析其投资逻辑对理解机构投资者行为和公募基金的选择至关重要。基于2005年至2019年主动管理偏股型开放式基金数据,本文检验了公募基金对A股市场87个异象因子的挖掘。为解决因子维度过大问题,本文采用非参方法从87个异象因子中提取有效信息的综合指标A-Score,并根据基金持仓构建基金的异象投资指标AIM(Anomalies Investing Measure)。结果显示:(1)中国公募基金挖掘了市场异象;(2)利用AIM可以选择表现更好的基金,并能获得0.45%的月度多空组合收益;(3)基金经理的选股能力、风格选择能力和风控能力是其挖掘异象收益的主要来源;(4)异象挖掘可以为基金带来长期资金流,同时也缓和了市场的错误定价。     

Investment restrictions and fund performance

We examine the effect of investment restrictions on mutual fund performance. Utilizing a unique panel of mutual fund contract changes, we explore several ways these changes affect a fund, including: performance, funding risk, and managerial contracting. We find that the general shift towards fewer restrictions over the period 1996–2011 has provided little benefit to mutual funds. Specifically, neither performance nor flow increased and we observe no changes in risk on average. We do find, however, an increased likelihood of management turnover when restrictions are removed. We conclude that contract restrictions do not explain the general underperformance of mutual funds, and that these investment restrictions are not binding.     

International evidence on ethical mutual fund performance and investment style

Using an international database containing 103 German, UK and US ethical mutual funds we review and extend previous research on ethical mutual fund performance. By applying a Carhart multi-factor model [Carhart, Journal of Finance 57 (1997) 57] we overcome the benchmark problem most prior ethical studies suffered from. After controlling for investment style, we find no evidence of significant differences in risk-adjusted returns between ethical and conventional funds for the 1990–2001 period. Our results also suggest that ethical mutual funds underwent a catching up phase, before delivering financial returns similar to those of conventional mutual funds. Finally, our performance estimates are robust to the inclusion of ethical indexes, which, surprisingly, are not incrementally capable of explaining ethical mutual fund return variation.     

证券投资基金规模适度性研究——基于中国市场的证据

随着社保、养老金等中长期资金的大规模入市,中国公募基金规模面临更快扩张,那么基金规模究竟是可以无限扩张还是存在制约？本文研究发现,基金规模扩张会受到基金经理与投资者之间的委托代理冲突、边际规模报酬递减、投资者大规模赎回的制约。基于此,本文提出了基金管理规模适度区间的概念及其相应计量模型,并借此对2011—2019年间中国公募基金市场规模的适度性进行实证判断和检验,结果显示:(1)中国公募基金的平均管理规模在2015年之前过大,2016年之后趋向适度,而在2019年出现偏小现象。(2)中国基金市场规模适度区间的上、下限呈现逐年减小趋势,但二者的差值,即适度性区间的宽度却逐年增加。(3)规模适度基金的业绩表现远好于规模不足和规模过大两类基金,但市场上的规模适度基金占比则小于另外两类基金。最后,本文就如何提升公募基金,尤其是对安全性和盈利性要求更高的养老保险基金的规模适度性提出了相应对策建议。     

Does educational diversity of managers matter for the performance of team‐managed funds?

We study the effect of the educational diversity of managers on the performance of team‐managed mutual funds using a large sample of U.S. equity funds from 1994 to 2013. We consider diversity in terms of both final educational degree and field of educational specialisation. We find that, in general, both types of diversity have a positive impact on fund performance, and our results are robust over a wide range of performance metrics and changes in market conditions.     

Mutual fund performance when parent firms simultaneously manage hedge funds

This study examines the performance of mutual funds managed by firms that simultaneously manage hedge funds. We find that the reported returns of mutual funds in these “side-by-side” associations with hedge funds significantly underperformed those of mutual funds that shared similar fund and family characteristics but differed in that they were not affiliated with hedge funds. Digging deeper into performance, we find that the underperformance was confined to return gaps, a return measure that captures the impact of unobservable managerial actions. Interestingly, mutual funds with investment styles that were most closely aligned to affiliated hedge funds generated reported-return alphas and return gaps that underperformed by the greatest amount. Finally, we find that side-by-side mutual funds received less of a contribution to performance from IPO underpricing than similar unaffiliated mutual funds or affiliated hedge funds. Evidence does not support the hypothesis that affiliations with hedge funds allow side-by-side mutual funds to attract superior stock-picking talent. Our evidence does not allow us to rule out the possibility that management firms maximized fee income by strategically transferring performance from mutual funds to hedge funds.     

Tax-Efficient Asset Management: Evidence from Equity Mutual Funds

We investigate the relation between tax burdens and mutual fund performance from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The theoretical model introduces heterogeneous tax clienteles in an environment with decreasing returns to scale and shows that the equilibrium performance of mutual funds depends on the size of the tax clienteles. Our empirical results show that the performance of U.S. equity mutual funds is related to their tax burdens. We find that tax-efficient funds exhibit not only superior after-tax performance, but also superior before-tax performance due to lower trading costs, favorable style exposures, and better selectivity.     

Do liquidity and idiosyncratic risk matter? Evidence from the European mutual fund market

This paper examines the interaction of idiosyncratic risk, liquidity and return across time in determining fund performance, as well as across investment style portfolios of European mutual funds. This study utilizes a unique data set including returns for equity mutual funds registered in six European countries. Overall, using monthly data, we find that both liquidity and idiosyncratic risk are relevant in determining mutual fund returns. Our results are robust across different model specifications. We show that model specifications up to six factors are useful as these risk factors capture different aspects in the cross-section of mutual funds returns. The evidence regarding mutual funds subgroups is strongly in favor of the significance of liquidity, and idiosyncratic risk to a lesser extent, as risk factors. Even if liquidity and idiosyncratic risk are considered at the same time, one factor is not significantly decreasing the importance of the other factor.