THE COST OF HOMOGENEITY IN LIFE CYCLE PENSION FUNDS: AN EXPLANATION TO DEMAND'S INELASTICITY OF MEXICAN PENSION FUNDS WITH A PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTION TEST

Oscar De la Torre Torres (), Evaristo Galeana Figueroa () and José Alvarez-García ()
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Evaristo Galeana Figueroa: Michoacan State University of Saint Nicholas and Hidalgo (Mexico)
José Alvarez-García: University of Extremadura (Spain)

European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE), 2018, vol. 24, issue 2, 97-103

Abstract: In the present paper we study the lack of alpha generation in the main defined contribution pension funds (SIEFORES) in Mexico and we compare the performance of each fund against the one of their life-cycle profile peers (SIEFORE type). As we expected, we found underperformance due to management costs and, more specifically, due to a homogeneous performance that we suggest it is induced by the actual investment policy. We also found that the observed betas have values closer to 1, especially in the case of the “all” SIEFORES system benchmark, a result that proves the observed homogeneous performance in all the SIEFORES. With our results we also prove that the return paid by Mexican Public pension funds is due to factors different than portfolio manager skills, supporting the proofs given in the related literature of pension fund demand inelasticity in Mexico, due to a noisy and uninformed pension fund selection. / 0

Keywords: Simulation modeling; Alpha generation; Pension funds; Informed decision; Portfolio selection; Competitiveness; Life cycle investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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