 Should Mutual Fund Investors Time Volatility?Feifei Wang, Xuemin (Sterling) Yan and Lingling Zheng Financial Analysts Journal, 2021, vol. 77, issue 1, 30-42 Abstract: Increasing (decreasing) investment in an actively managed mutual fund when fund volatility has recently been low (high) leads to a significant improvement in investment performance. Specifically, volatility-scaled fund returns exhibit significantly higher alphas and Sharpe ratios than the original (unscaled) fund returns. Scaling by past downside volatility leads to even greater performance improvement than scaling by total volatility. The superior performance of volatility-managed mutual fund trading strategies is attributable to both volatility timing and return timing. Fund flows are negatively related to past fund volatility, suggesting that fund investors are aware of the benefit of volatility management.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest. Editor’s Note Submitted 3 March 2020Accepted 7 September 2020 by Stephen J. BrownThis article was externally reviewed using our double-blind peer-review process. When the article was accepted for publication, the authors thanked the reviewers in their acknowledgments. Claude B. Erb, CFA, and one anonymous reviewer were the reviewers for this article. Date: 2021 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ufajxx:v:77:y:2021:i:1:p:30-42 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/0015198X.2020.1822705 Access Statistics for this article Financial Analysts Journal is currently edited by Maryann Dupes More articles in Financial Analysts Journal from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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