Investor-Stock Decoupling in Mutual Funds

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Miguel A. Ferreira

Nova School of Business and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Massimo Massa

INSEAD - Finance

Pedro Matos

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: July 5, 2016

Abstract

We investigate whether mutual funds whose investors and stocks are decoupled (i.e., investor location does not coincide with that of the stock holdings) benefit from a natural hedge as they have fewer outflows during market downturns and fewer inflows during upturns. Using a sample of equity mutual funds from 26 countries, we find that funds with higher investor-stock decoupling exhibit higher performance and this is more pronounced during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We also find that decoupling allows fund managers to take less risk, be more active, and tilt their portfolios toward smaller and less liquid stocks.

Keywords: Mutual funds, Performance, Fund flows, Risk taking, Limits of arbitrage

JEL Classification: G23, G30, G32

Suggested Citation

Ferreira, Miguel Almeida and Massa, Massimo and Matos, Pedro, Investor-Stock Decoupling in Mutual Funds (July 5, 2016). AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 07-10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1571838 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1571838

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