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Manager characteristics: Predicting fund performance

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  • Clare, Andrew
  • Sherman, Meadhbh
  • O'Sullivan, Niall
  • Gao, Jun
  • Zhu, Sheng

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A great deal of research effort has sought to understand whether fund managers have skill. However, most of this research draws inferences from fund returns attributable to funds that may have been managed by many different managers over the years. In this paper we focus on the fund manager. We put together a comprehensive data base of manager returns, including a time series of managers' career returns, concatenating performance from the different funds that a manager may have managed over time. We relate these returns to the characteristics of the managers as we seek to understand whether these characteristics have an impact on: manager skill; manager style; and on performance persistence.

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  • Clare, Andrew & Sherman, Meadhbh & O'Sullivan, Niall & Gao, Jun & Zhu, Sheng, 2022. "Manager characteristics: Predicting fund performance," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finana:v:80:y:2022:i:c:s1057521922000266
    DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102049
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    Keywords

    Mutual fund performance; Manager characteristics; Manager skill; Performance persistence;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets

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