Measuring skill in the mutual fund industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berk, Jonathan B.; van Binsbergen, Jules H.
• 署名单位: Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.05.002
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1-20
• 关键词: mutual funds; Managerial skill; alpha

摘要

Using the value that a mutual fund extracts from capital markets as the measure of skill, we find that the average mutual fund has used this skill to generate about $3.2 million per year. Large cross-sectional differences in skill persist for as long as ten years. Investors recognize this skill and reward it by investing more capital with better funds. Better funds earn higher aggregate fees, and a strong positive correlation exists between current compensation and future performance. The cross-sectional distribution of managerial skill is predominantly reflected in the cross-sectional distribution of fund size, not gross alpha. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.