Trading Regularity and Fund Performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Busse, Jeffrey A.; Tong, Lin; Tong, Qing; Zhang, Zhe
• 署名单位: Emory University; Fordham University; Renmin University of China; Singapore Management University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0893-9454
• DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhy059
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 374
• 关键词: EARNINGS-ANNOUNCEMENT DRIFT; cross-section; stock returns; liquidity; investors; persistence; anomalies; trades; RISK

摘要

We construct a new measure of trading regularity, capturing the extent to which investors trade on a regular basis. Institutional investors that regularly trade outperform those that trade less regularly. The performance of funds that regularly trade persists for at least a year. Among those who trade most regularly, larger funds perform relatively worse, because they incur higher transaction costs associated with their larger trades. Institutions that regularly trade generate superior performance, in part, by behaving as contrarians and by trading more aggressively on information. By contrast, we find no relation between trading regularity and performance among index funds. Received November 21, 2016; editorial decision March 28, 2018 by Editor Andrew Karolyi. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.