Investment funds under stress

Eduardo Maqui, Matthias Sydow and Régis Gourdel

No 2323, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: This paper presents a model for stress testing investment funds, based on a broad worldwide sample of primary open-end equity and bond funds. First, we employ a Bayesian technique to project the impact of macro-financial scenarios on country-level portfolio flows worldwide that are constructed from fund-level asset holdings. Second, from these projected country-level flows, we model the scenarios’ repercussions on individual funds along a three year horizon. Importantly, we further decompose portfolio flows, disentangling the specific contributions of transactions, valuation and foreign exchange effects. Overall, our results indicate that the impact of a global adverse macro-financial scenario leads to a median depletion in assets under management (AUM) of 24% and 5%, for euro area-domiciled equity and bond funds respectively, largely driven by valuation effects. Scenario and results both present similarities to the global financial crisis. We use historical information on fund liquidations to estimate a threshold for a drop in AUM that signals a high likelihood of a forthcoming liquidation. Based on this, we estimate that 5.8% and 0.5% of euro area-domiciled equity and bond funds respectively could go into liquidation. Such empirical thresholds can be useful for the implementation of prudential policy tools, such as redemption gates. JEL Classification: F21, G15, G17, G23, G28

Keywords: Bayesian model averaging; international capital flows; investment funds; portfolio valuation; prudential policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ifn and nep-rmg
Note: 2105744
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