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Index Fundamentalism Revisited

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  • Tower, Edward
  • Reinker, Kenneth S.

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Jared Kizerís analysis indicates the return to stock-picking skills is not enough to offset the additional transactions costs of a managed portfolio. Thus the superior performance of Vanguardís managed portfolio was due entirely to its tendency to overweight small stocks and value stocks relative to the index portfolio during a period when stocks with these two characteristics outperformed the market. So, it is style-picking skill rather than stock picking skill that leads to the superiority of the managed portfolio in this particular instance. Similarly, style-picking skill explains the lower risk for the managed portfolio.

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  • Tower, Edward & Reinker, Kenneth S., 2004. "Index Fundamentalism Revisited," Working Papers 04-07, Duke University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Edward Tower & Wei Zheng, 2008. "Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 55(4), pages 315-350, December.
    2. Premachandra, I.M. & Zhu, Joe & Watson, John & Galagedera, Don U.A., 2012. "Best-performing US mutual fund families from 1993 to 2008: Evidence from a novel two-stage DEA model for efficiency decomposition," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(12), pages 3302-3317.
    3. Manuel Ammann & Michael Steiner, 2009. "The Performance of Actively and Passively Managed Swiss Equity Funds," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 145(I), pages 1-36, March.
    4. Rodriguez, Abel & Tower, Edward, 2007. "Do Vanguard's Managed Funds Beat Its Index Funds? Looking for Prescient Stock and Style Selection Draft 1," Working Papers 07-03, Duke University, Department of Economics.

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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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