Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market? Asset Allocation, Market Timing, Security Selection, and the Limits of Liquidity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Andonov ◽  
Rob Bauer ◽  
Martijn Cremers
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Security Selection

scholarly journals Benchmark selection and performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Broeders ◽  
Leo de Haan
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Security Selection ◽  
Regulatory Data ◽  
Investment Returns ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Style Preferences ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUsing regulatory data free of self-reporting bias for 2007–16, we decompose investment returns of 455 Dutch pension funds according to their key investment decisions, i.e., asset allocation, market timing and security selection. In extension to existing papers, we also assess the impact of benchmark selection. Over time, asset allocation explains 39% of the variation of returns, whereas benchmark selection, timing and selection explain 11%, 9% and 16%, respectively. Across pension funds, asset allocation explains on average only 19% of the variation in pension fund returns. Benchmark selection dominates this by explaining 33% of cross-sectional returns. We relate the choice for a specific benchmark to investment, risk and style preferences.

scholarly journals KINERJA PENGELOLAAN DANA PADA PASAR MODAL INDONESIA

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyun Istavirti ◽  
Dr. Andi M. Alfian Parewangi ◽  
Dr. Ruslan Prijadi
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Selection Strategy ◽  
Fund Manager ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Allocation Policy ◽  
Tactical Asset Allocation ◽  
Security Selection

The mutual fund is a fast growing, flexible and sizely attainable product, hence make it as favourable choice for the investors. As in other developing countries, however, the management of the fund invested in mutual fund is done by pointed fund manager. This paper raises and answers the question of how efficient the fund management is. This paper ustilizes the decomposition return model on the monthly data set from 2002-2006 in Indonesia. The model derived, enable us to trace and decompose the management performance into (i) the allocation policy skill, (ii) the security selection skill and (iii) the market timing strategy or the tactical asset allocation abilty.The model estimation result shows significant management capabilities on allocating the fund into suitable asset class. We record that the best asset allocation policy was on February 2002, June 2004, August 2004 and February 2006. Inline with this, another result shows the negatif contribution of the short term-tactical asset allocation as conformed by several previous studies; Treynor-Mazuy (1996), Wardhani (2003), and Henriksson (1984) among others. There is an exception for February 2006 where a successful market timing strategy contributed an additional 7.34% return. The security selection strategy is confirmed to have a positive and significant impact on the mutual fund performance. During the observation period, the best security selection strategy was achieved on February, March and July 2002, September 2003, and March, October, and December 2005. For these certain period, the security selection activities gave more than 2% additional monthly return.The policy implication is straightforward; a more intensively monitoring on the implementation of the planned asset allocation to give a safer financial investment environment for the investors. This paper also suggest the investment manager to provide a sufficient information about the portfolio’s risk profile. Our quantitative description has shown a large varieties both on return and risk across the mutual fund manager showing their varied risk taking behaviour, on which the investor has a right to know.JEL Classification: H54, G11, G31, O16Keywords: Mutual fund, asset allocation, security selection, market timing, period specific estimation, financial investment

scholarly journals A comparison of retirement saving using discretionary investment and Regulation 28

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gizelle D. Willows ◽  
Thomas Burgers ◽  
Darron West
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Retirement Savings ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
Risk And Return ◽  
Retirement Saving ◽  
Retirement Fund

Background: There is growing uncertainty in global society with regard to how retirement savings should be approached. The primary reason for this is that most societies do not save enough and their citizens run out of money during retirement. Aim: This study investigates whether the limitations imposed by Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act of South Africa encourage optimal asset allocation and reduce investment risk for retirement savings when contrasted with discretionary investment. Setting: The study looks at hypothetical individuals who are subject to tax and retirement consequences as administered by South African legislation. Methods: A quantitative risk and return analysis was performed while considering two hypothetical investors who are identical in all aspects other than their choice of investments. Results: The findings indicate that Regulation 28 is effective in reducing the investment risk of retirement savings; however, it may also force the investor to sacrifice wealth. Conclusion: Depending on the tax bracket in which the investor sits, discretionary investment may be preferential to investing in a retirement fund under the mandate of Regulation 28.

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