Benchmarking money manager performance : issues and evidence

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...

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Main Authors: Chan, Louis K. C., Dimmock, Stephen G., Lakonishok, Josef
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100242
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17808
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary: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.