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Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep / Randolph Cohen, Joshua Coval, Lubos Pastor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Randolph.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9359.
- NBER working paper series no. w9359
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Summary:
- We develop a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which his investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures are estimated more precisely than standard measures, because they use historical returns and holdings of many funds to evaluate the performance of a single fund. According to one of our measures, funds with significantly positive ability considerably outnumber funds with significantly negative ability at the end of our sample. Simulations demonstrate that our measures are particularly useful in ranking managers. In an application that relies on such ranking, we find only weak persistence in the performance of U.S. equity funds after accounting for momentum in stock returns.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2002.
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