tailieunhanh - The Performance of Japanese Mutual Funds

On the basis of the results of the plenary presentations and discussions, of the contents of the two new studies by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and of the ten specific papers commissioned for the workshop, the following understanding of the main achievements and weaknesses encountered by social funds over their first ten years of imple- mentation (1986–96) was summarized. While it was clear to all participants that social funds have performed differently in accor- dance with their objectives and their national contexts, they agreed on their commonalties and the major achievements and weaknesses of social funds, which were analyzed under four main angles | The Performance of Japanese Mutual Funds Jun Cai City University of Hong Kong K. C. Chan Takeshi Yamada Hong Kong University of Science and Technology We analyze the performance of Japanese opentype stock mutual funds for the 1981-1992 period. The results show that regardless of the performance measures and benchmarks employed most of the Japanese mutual funds underperform the benchmarks by between and per annum. These funds tend to invest more in large stocks with low book-to-market ratios. But this feature does not explain the underperformance. A potential explanation is the dilution effect caused by inflows of funds. In Japan a new investor of an open-type fund only pays in the after-tax value of the net asset value. We conduct a bootstrap experiment to assess the magnitude of this dilution effect. Are Japanese mutual funds a good investment The overall performance of Japanese open-type stock mutual funds over the last 15 years has not been The authors acknowledge the seminar participants at the Chinese University City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Statistical Association Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Keio University and the participants at the American Finance Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco the Emerging Trends in Japanese Financial Markets Conference at Columbia University the Nippon Finance Association Annual Meeting at Yokohama National University and the Kinzai Finance Workshop. We particularly thank the anonymous referee John Ammer Jeffrey Busse Wayne Ferson Will Goetzmann Bob Korajczyk the editor Yasushi Hamao Katsuhide Hatanaka Ravi Jagannathan David Modest Rudi Schadt Osamu Shigeta and Koichi Watanabe for valuable comments and the Investment Trusts Association for providing us with valuable information. The usual disclaimer applies. Address correspondence to Jun Cai Department of Economics and Finance City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon Hong Kong. The Review of Financial Studies Summer 1997 Vol.

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