Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-19-2007
Abstract
We evaluate the relative performance of funds by conditioning their returns on the cross-section of portfolio characteristics across fund managers. Our implied procedure circumvents the need to specify benchmark returns or peer funds. Instead, fund-specific benchmarks for measuring selection and market timing ability are constructed. This technique is robust to herding as well as window dressing and mitigates survivorship bias. Empirically, the conditional information contained in portfolio weights defined by industry sectors, assets, and geographical regions is important to the assessment of fund management. For each set of portfolio characteristics, we identify funds with success at either selecting securities or timing-the-market.
Recommended Citation
Hogan, S., & Warachka, M. (2008). Implied measures of relative fund performance. Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 22, 47–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-007-0070-6
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Springer
Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, volume 22, in 2008 following peer review. The final publication may differ and is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-007-0070-6.