A Test of the Persistence in the Performance of UK Managed Funds

David Allen and M. L. Tan

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 1999, vol. 26, issue 5‐6, 559-593

Abstract: We employ a United Kingdom data set of weekly returns from a sample of investment trust companies available on the Datastream database. We analyse the relative performance of the funds and determine whether a ‘good’ (above‐median), past‐performance is indicative of future performance. Our study focuses on within sample relative performance. We examine persistence in performance in the short and long run based on a number of tests. Overall we find that both raw and risk‐adjusted returns exhibit evidence of persistence in performance in the long run but not in the very short run.

Date: 1999
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