Benchmarking Money Manager Performance: Issues and Evidence
63 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2006 Last revised: 21 Jul 2022
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Benchmarking Money Manager Performance: Issues and Evidence
Benchmarking Money Manager Performance: Issues and Evidence
Benchmarking Money Manager Performance: Issues and Evidence
Date Written: August 2006
Abstract
Academic and practitioner research yields a proliferation of methods using size and value/growth attributes or factors to evaluate portfolio performance. We assess the relative merits of several of the most widely-used procedures, including variants of matched-characteristic benchmark portfolios and time-series return regressions, by applying them to a sample of active money managers and passive indexes. Estimated abnormal returns display large variation across approaches. The benchmarks most widely used in academic research --- attribute-matched portfolios from independent sorts, the conventional three-factor time series model, and cross-sectional regressions of returns on stock characteristics --- have poor ability to track returns. Simple alterations are provided that improve the performance of the methods.
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