Do Funds Make More When They Trade More?

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Lubos Pastor

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Robert F. Stambaugh

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Lucian A. Taylor

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Date Written: October 9, 2016

Abstract

We model fund turnover in the presence of time-varying profit opportunities. Our model predicts a positive relation between an active fund's turnover and its subsequent benchmark-adjusted return. We find such a relation for equity mutual funds. This time-series relation between turnover and performance is stronger than the cross-sectional relation, as the model predicts. Also as predicted, the turnover-performance relation is stronger for funds trading less-liquid stocks and funds likely to possess greater skill. Turnover is correlated across funds. The common component of turnover is positively correlated with proxies for stock mispricing. Turnover of similar funds helps predict a fund's performance.

Keywords: turnover, skill, performance, active management, mutual funds

JEL Classification: G10, G20

Suggested Citation

Pastor, Lubos and Stambaugh, Robert F. and Taylor, Lucian A., Do Funds Make More When They Trade More? (October 9, 2016). Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2524397 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2524397

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