Do Mutual Fund Managers Time Market Sentiment?

Jun-Hao Li, Chun-Fan You and Chin-Sheng Huang

International Journal of Financial Research, 2020, vol. 11, issue 5, 527-537

Abstract: This paper examines whether fund managers can adjust the exposure of portfolio to time market sentiment, thus expanding the new dimension of the study of mutual fund managers¡¯ timing ability. Using the data of Chinese open-end equity funds from January 2010 to December 2019, based on the CICSI sentiment index developed by Yi and Mao (2009), we find strong evidence that Chinese mutual fund managers have sentiment ability during the sample period. In addition, the funds with positive sentiment timing ability outperforms those without such by 2.20% per year, and the longer the fund survives, the more likely for it to have sentiment timing ability. Our findings remain robust even after controlling the impact of bull and bear market on China¡¯s A-share market in 2015, market timing, volatility timing and liquidity timing, and after using three new sentiment indicators to verify the finding, three indicators being the net buying amount of northward capital, the net buying amount of financing, and the net ratio of limit up.

Keywords: sentiment timing; mutual fund; China¡¯s A-share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.5430/ijfr.v11n5p527

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