Download This PaperFund Tradeoffs
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-10
Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
55 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2017 Last revised: 12 Aug 2020
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Fund Tradeoffs
Fund Tradeoffs
Portfolio Liquidity and Diversification: Theory and Evidence
Fund Tradeoffs
Date Written: January 9, 2020
Abstract
We study tradeoffs among active mutual funds' characteristics. In both our equilibrium model and the data, funds with larger size, lower expense ratio, and higher turnover hold more-liquid portfolios. Portfolio liquidity, a concept introduced here, depends not only on the liquidity of the portfolio's holdings but also on the portfolio's diversification. We also confirm other model-predicted tradeoffs: Larger funds are cheaper. Larger and cheaper funds are less active, based on our new measure of activeness. Better-diversified funds hold less-liquid stocks; they are also larger, cheaper, and trade more. These tradeoffs provide novel evidence of diseconomies of scale in active management.
Keywords: fund tradeoffs, fund characteristics, portfolio liquidity, diversification
JEL Classification: G11, G23
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