Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data

David Blake, Bruce N Lehmann and Allan Timmermann

No 1618, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Using a data set containing 364 UK pension funds’ asset holdings, this paper provides a systematic investigation of the performance of managed portfolios across multiple asset classes. We find surprisingly little cross-sectional variation in the ex-post average performance across the UK pension fund portfolios as a whole as well as within asset classes. This finding we ascribe to the strong incentive the fund managers had not to underperform relative to their peer group. For domestic equities, by far the most important component of the portfolios, we find that fund size is the only variable that appears to account for an important fraction of the cross-sectional variation in measured performance.

Keywords: Asset Allocation; Pension funds; Performance Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-06
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