Portfolio Pumping in Mutual Fund Families

49 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last revised: 22 Jan 2023

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Pingle Wang

University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management, Department of Finance

Date Written: May 30, 2018

Abstract

I document portfolio pumping at the fund family level, a strategy that non-star fund managers buy stocks held by star funds in the family to inflate their performance at quarter-end. Star funds with high family pumping activities show strong evidence of inflated performance after 2002, when the Securities and Exchange Commission increased regulation on portfolio pumping at the fund level. Stocks pumped by the strategy show strong reversals at the last trading day of the quarter. Non-star fund managers pumping for star funds receive substantially higher flows in the future, which cannot be explained by fund characteristics.

Keywords: Mutual Funds, Portfolio Pumping, Family Strategy

JEL Classification: G18, G23, G28, K22

Suggested Citation

Wang, Pingle, Portfolio Pumping in Mutual Fund Families (May 30, 2018). Fifth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933600 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2933600

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University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management, Department of Finance ( email )

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