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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
- ISSN
- 2045-9920
- eISSN
- 2045-9939
- DOI
- 10.1093/rapstu/rav005
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
A closet indexer is more likely to meet a value-weighted investment benchmark by value weighting the portfolio. Following this intuition, we introduce a simple measure of active management, the absolute difference between the value weights and actual weights held by a fund, summed across its holdings. This proxy captures managerial skill: active funds outperform passive ones by 2.5 annually. Compared with known measures of skill, our proxy robustly predicts fund flows, asset growth, factor-adjusted performance, and value added. Its predictive ability is orthogonal to that of other measures and is robust to controlling for volatility timing, past performance, and style. (JEL G10, G12, G14, G20, G23)
Journal
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 2, 2015