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My global fund portfolio is not yours: the effect of home bias on European- and US-managed convertible bond fund exposures

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  • Geert Van Campenhout
  • Rosanne Vanpée

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This paper shows that global convertible bond funds (CBFs) and their resulting equity-bond exposures are regionally biased. Global bond fund managers display home bias, resulting in CBFs that are not only tilted towards the home market but also reflect the different bond-equity exposures of European and US convertibles. More specifically we find that global funds managed by a European asset management firm are more bond-like than global funds managed by a US-based asset manager. Hence, investors have to account for the asset management company's origin to avoid that the performance of the fund and its correlation with other assets is not in line with investor's ex ante expectations about globally managed portfolios. Our results also indicate that for investors of European-based CBFs this home bias has resulted in an ex post opportunity cost up to 1.38% per year, depending on the sample period.

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  • Geert Van Campenhout & Rosanne Vanpée, 2017. "My global fund portfolio is not yours: the effect of home bias on European- and US-managed convertible bond fund exposures," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(14), pages 1335-1361, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:23:y:2017:i:14:p:1335-1361
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2016.1151809
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