Are Funds True to Label? Matching Qualitative and Quantitative Information

40 Pages Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last revised: 1 Oct 2015

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Zhe Chen

University of New South Wales (UNSW); Acadian Asset Management; Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR)

David R. Gallagher

Bond University

Camille Schmidt

SuperRatings

Date Written: September 29, 2015

Abstract

Our contribution to funds management research is in matching qualitative information sourced from the fund manager with their own quantitative data concerning what assets they own, how they trade, and how their portfolios are managed. We find that survey responses are informative of characteristic values relative to other funds e.g. funds that declare higher maximum tracking errors tend to have higher tracking errors. Furthermore, self-declared number of stocks held and turnover are less indicative of future fund characteristics than actual past measures. Overall, our study suggests that the Questionnaire responses do contain some information value when used by asset consultants to compare funds.

The appendices for this paper are available at the following URL: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2666818

Keywords: Asset consultants; concentration; fund managers; tracking error; turnover

JEL Classification: G23

Suggested Citation

Chen, Zhe and Chen, Zhe and Gallagher, David R. and Schmidt, Camille, Are Funds True to Label? Matching Qualitative and Quantitative Information (September 29, 2015). CIFR Paper No.042/2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2513658 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2513658

Zhe Chen (Contact Author)

Acadian Asset Management ( email )

260 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
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University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Kensington
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Australia

Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) ( email )

Level 7, UNSW CBD Campus
1 O'Connell Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

David R. Gallagher

Bond University ( email )

Centre for Data Analytics, Bond Business School
Gold Coast, QLD 4229
Australia

Camille Schmidt

SuperRatings

Australia

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