Performance regressions lever expected benchmark returns linearly to the risk exposures of fund. The interest rate (IR) premium, however, usually follows a decreasingly upward-sloping yield curve, characterizing nonlinearity between return and IR exposure—for example, maturity or duration. If fund differ, this discrepancy causes alpha deviate from active bond selection performance it is suppose...

Despite pension fund managers being largely unconstrained in their investment decisions, this paper reports evidence of clustering in the performance of a large cross-section of UK pension fund managers around the median fund manager. This finding is explained in terms of the predominance of a single investment style (balanced management), the fee structures and incentives operating in the UK p...

We examine the level of share dealing activity of UK long-term institutional funds and, for UK pension funds, assess the impact of this dealing activity on investment performance. The analysis is carried out using annual returns and activity from the WM Universe of UK funds. Previous published research has concentrated mainly on US mutual funds and has generally reported no relationship between...

The paper investigates the role of trust in fund managers’ investment process. Three types of trust personal trust, organizational trust and system trust have been identified in Chinese fund managers’ investment practice. The impacts of different types of trust on mutual funds’ performance are then examined empirically. Through an in-depth investigation of 96 actively managed Chinese mutual fun...