Liquidity provision and trading skill: evidence from mutual funds' daily transactions

  • Examining risk-adjusted returns for executed trades over horizons of up to 1 year, we document strong evidence of short-term trading skill using daily mutual fund transactions from Finland. We find that trading performance is highly persistent up to the 1 month horizon, with an annualized Carhart abnormal return of 5.03% observed for both buys and sells. Moreover, the returns observed for the first week account for almost 36% of a fund's 1 year trade return, underscoring the significance of short-term trading in mutual funds. For the best-performing funds, this short-term performance also translates into sustained long-term outperformance. Investigating possible sources, we find that liquidity provision, rather than price pressure, is a significant contributor. In addition, short-term trading performance is significantly positively related to trade size, fund size, and expenses, depending on whether buys or sells are considered.

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Author:René WehGND, Peter Joakim Westerholm, Marco WilkensORCiDGND, Juan Yao
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1128546
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/112854
ISSN:1058-3300OPAC
ISSN:1873-5924OPAC
Parent Title (English):Review of Financial Economics
Publisher:Wiley
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2024
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2024/05/08
Volume:42
Issue:2
First Page:206
Last Page:238
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/rfe.1196
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre / Lehrstuhl für Finanz- und Bankwirtschaft
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):CC-BY-NC 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell (mit Print on Demand)