Performance Persistence of Dutch Pension Funds

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Xiaohong Huang

University of Twente - Department of Finance & Accounting

Ronald Mahieu

Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research, Econometrics and Finance Group; TiasNimbas Business School

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Date Written: August 17, 2010

Abstract

This paper studies the investment performance of pension funds with a focus on their ability in implementing their intended investment strategy. We use a sample of Dutch industry-wide pension funds, which are obliged by law to report their investment performance according to the so-called z-score. The z-score is a risk-adjusted performance measure where the benchmarks are chosen a priori preventing manipulation in the score calculation. We find that pension funds as a group cannot beat their self-selected benchmarks and show no performance persistence. It reflects that pension funds on average do not add value in implementing their investment strategy. Cross-sectionally, it turns out that large funds are better able to beat their benchmarks persistently than small funds.

Keywords: Performance evaluation, pension funds, industry-wide, z-score, the Netherlands

JEL Classification: G23, C12

Suggested Citation

Huang, Xiaohong and Mahieu, Ronald J., Performance Persistence of Dutch Pension Funds (August 17, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1094704 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1094704

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