| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26423 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26423 |
| Don\u2019t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds | |
| Huaizhi Chen; Lauren Cohen; Umit Gurun | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-04 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. In particular, many funds report more investment grade assets than are actually held in their portfolios to important information intermediaries, making these funds appear significantly less risky. This results in pervasive misclassification across the universe of US fixed income mutual funds. The problem is widespread - resulting in up to 31.4% of funds being misclassified with safer profiles, when compared against their true, publicly reported holdings. “Misclassified funds” – i.e., those that hold risky bonds, but claim to hold safer bonds – appear to on-average outperform the low-risk funds in their peer groups. Within category groups, “Misclassified funds” moreover receive higher Morningstar Ratings (significantly more Morningstar Stars) and higher investor flows due to this perceived on-average outperformance. However, when we correctly classify them based on their actual risk, these funds are mediocre performers. These Misclassified funds also significantly underperform precisely when junk-bonds crash in returns. Misreporting is stronger following several quarters of large negative returns. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics ; Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing ; Financial Institutions ; Behavioral Finance ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26423 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584095 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huaizhi Chen,Lauren Cohen,Umit Gurun. Don\u2019t Take Their Word For It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds. 2019. |
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| w26423.pdf（898KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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