Abstract
Abstract
We re-examine performance persistence amongst UK mutual funds. Specifically, we investigate performance persistence amongst small portfolios of past high-performing funds. In contrast to the more common analysis of decile portfolios of funds, we focus on persistence in the more extreme positive tail of the cross section of fund performance. This paper contributes to the smaller literature on UK rather than US mutual fund performance. We investigate fund persistence based on practitioner index models as well as academic factor models, focusing on small portfolios of funds using inference based on nonparametric persistence test statistics as well as conventional t tests. We provide strong evidence of positive persistence amongst small-size portfolios of (past) high-performing funds that is robust to alternative formation and holding periods and alternative performance models. We also document some sensitivity in inferences on positive persistence when using nonparametric versus conventional tests.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Information Systems and Management,Strategy and Management,Business and International Management
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