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European mutual funds and portfolio's country exposure: does active management add value?

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Daily fund data and Sharpe's (1992) style methodology are used to evaluate the performance and forecasting skill of European mutual fund managers. Specifically, this study addresses the following question: do European fund managers add value to their investors by actively managing their portfolio's country exposure? To look into this issue, a methodology based on attribution returns is employed. An attribution return is defined as the difference between a fund's actual month t return and the return that would have been generated by the fund month t - 1 portfolio's country exposure. European fund managers, as a group, add value to their investors by managing their portfolio's country exposure as evidenced by a positive mean attribution return. Also, during the same sample period but based on the more traditional performance measure alpha, these funds outperform a regional benchmark and both measures are found to be positively correlated.

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  • Javier Rodriguez, 2008. "European mutual funds and portfolio's country exposure: does active management add value?," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(8), pages 683-689.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apfiec:v:18:y:2008:i:8:p:683-689
    DOI: 10.1080/09603100601131659
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