Portfolio quality and mutual fund performance

David R. Gallagher; Peter A. Gardner; Camille H. Schmidt; Terry S. Walter

doi:10.1111/irfi.12031

Portfolio quality and mutual fund performance

David R. Gallagher, Peter A. Gardner, Camille H. Schmidt^*, Terry S. Walter

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This study investigates how the quality of stocks owned by mutual funds affects the performance of those funds during 2000-2009. The quality of a stock is positively related to its size, while quality is inversely related to volatility. Evidently, stocks in the lowest quality decile perform particularly poorly amidst volatile market conditions with a mean monthly Daniel, Grinblatt, Titman and Wermers (DGTW) alpha 1.93% [25.73% per annum (pa)] less than high-quality stocks. Furthermore, funds which hold the lowest quality stocks exhibit substantial underperformance, particularly during market downturns, with funds in the lowest decile of quality incurring a mean monthly DGTW alpha 0.96% (12.14% pa) lower than their higher quality counterparts. Interestingly, we discover a trend to funds investing in higher quality stocks over time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	485-521
Number of pages	37
Journal	International Review of Finance
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/irfi.12031
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes

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