The Asset Allocation of Emerging Market Mutual Funds

Piti Disyatat () and R. Gaston Gelos ()

No 01/111, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Benchmark following and portfolio rebalancing effects have often been cited when trying to explain international financial contagion phenomena. Using a dataset containing the country allocation of individual dedicated emerging market equity funds, we assess the relevance of mean-variance optimization and benchmark following, finding strong evidence for both. We also present a framework to systematically extract useful information about market expectations from funds' holdings.

Keywords: Financial assets; Emerging markets; Stock markets; Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-09-07
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