期刊名称:Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance / School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College
印刷版ISSN:1745-8587
出版年度:2006
卷号:2006
出版社:London University
摘要:This paper analyses the impact of the emergence of new funds on the portfolio
decisions of mutual fund managers who are evaluated on the basis of
relative performance within a dynamic model. Recent theoretical literature
has pointed to the inefficiencies in portfolio selection caused by relative
performance evaluation of fund managers. We find that the on-going process of
the creation of new funds, by posing an entry threat to the incumbent fund
managers, greatly alleviates these inefficiencies. Hence the transitory market
structure that characterises the mutual fund industry could explain why relative
performance evaluation is widely in use.