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Do Portfolio Manager Contracts Contract Portfolio Management?

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  • JUNG HOON LEE
  • CHARLES TRZCINKA
  • SHYAM VENKATESAN

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Most mutual fund managers have performance‐based contracts. Our theory predicts that mutual fund managers with asymmetric contracts and mid‐year performance close to their announced benchmark increase their portfolio risk in the second part of the year. As predicted by our theory, performance deviation from the benchmark decreases risk‐shifting only for managers with performance contracts. Deviation from the benchmark dominates incentives from the flow‐performance relation, suggesting that risk‐shifting is motivated more by management contracts than by a tournament to capture flows.

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  • Jung Hoon Lee & Charles Trzcinka & Shyam Venkatesan, 2019. "Do Portfolio Manager Contracts Contract Portfolio Management?," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 74(5), pages 2543-2577, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jfinan:v:74:y:2019:i:5:p:2543-2577
    DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12823
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