Riding the geopolitical storm or dodging bullets: Geopolitical risk timing of mutual funds

Jie Liu, Zhenshan Chen, Gengyan Lin and Yinglun Zhu

Global Finance Journal, 2024, vol. 63, issue C

Abstract: This study investigates the mutual fund timing of geopolitical risk and corresponding economic consequences based on open-end active stock funds data in China from January 2005 to June 2023. Mutual funds are effective at timing geopolitical risks, evidenced by their tendency to reduce market risk exposure before periods of heightened geopolitical risk. We find that geopolitical risk timing is significantly positively associated with fund performance with persistence in mutual funds' geopolitical risk timing abilities. This effect remains robust even after controlling for market, volatility, and liquidity timing of mutual funds. The results suggest that mutual funds with superior geopolitical risk timing attract greater fund inflows, highlighting their positive market value. Fund managers with experience as macro analysts and political connections are more sophisticated in timing geopolitical risk than their counterparts.

Keywords: Mutual fund; Geopolitical risk; Market timing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G19 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101047

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