Mutual Fund Performance and Fund Flows: Medium-Term Relations in Korean Market

Individual investor mutual fund flows

This paper studies the relation between individuals’ mutual fund flows and fund characteristics, establishing three key results. First, consistent with tax motivations, individual investors are reluctant to sell mutual funds that have appreciated in value and are willing to sell losing funds. Second, individuals pay attention to investment costs as redemption decisions are sensitive to both exp...

Evaluating Mutual Fund Performance

We study standard mutual fund performance measures, using simulated funds whose characteristics mimic actual funds. We find that performance measures used in previous mutual fund research have little ability to detect economically large magnitudes ~e.g., three percent per year! of abnormal fund performance, particularly if a fund’s style characteristics differ from those of the value-weighted m...

Truth in Mutual Fund Advertising : Evidence on Future Performance and Fund Flows

participants at the workshops at Tulane University and the annual Financial Management Association meetings, two anonymous referees and many of our colleagues for helpful comments at various stages of this research. We also thank Lipper Analytical Services, Inc. for providing data on monthly total net assets and returns, and thank Mark Carhart for data on factor returns to estimate four-factor ...

Dedicated REIT Mutual Fund Flows and REIT Performance

This study examines the effects of weekly and monthly capital flows into the dedicated REIT mutual fund sector on aggregate REIT returns and, simultaneously, the effects of industrylevel REIT returns on subsequent REIT mutual fund flows. The dynamic relation between REIT capital flows and returns is estimated using vector autoregression (VAR) techniques. Unlike static regression techniques, our...

Tests of Market Timing and Mutual Fund Performance