Do Winners Repeat with Style?

Ibbotson, Roger G.; Patel, Amita K.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.292866

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Do Winners Repeat with Style?

29 Pages Posted: 9 Jan 2002

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Roger G. Ibbotson

Yale School of Management; Zebra Capital Management, LLC

Amita K. Patel

Colonial Consulting

Date Written: February 2002

Abstract

Several studies have found that considerable persistence exists in mutual fund performance. We study this phenomenon in fund managers who achieve superior performance, after adjusting for the investment style of the fund. Our data of domestic equity mutual funds indicates that winning funds do repeat good performance. Style-adjusted alphas are evaluated on both an absolute and relative basis. The highest persistence is exhibited by funds whose alpha is greater than 10% and also by funds whose alpha ranks in the top 5% of the sample.

JEL Classification: G00, G11, G14, G23

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Ibbotson, Roger G. and Patel, Amita K., Do Winners Repeat with Style? (February 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=292866 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.292866