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Can mutual funds time investment styles?

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  • Laurens Swinkels

    (Erasmus School of Economics)

  • Liam Tjong-A-Tjoe

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We investigate the ability of mutual fund managers to successfully rotate between investment styles based on characteristics such as market capitalisation, valuation ratios, and price momentum. We find evidence in favour of market timing among a group of 153 US-based mutual funds with a Morningstar Midcap/Blend investments style. We also find evidence in favour of mutual funds being able to predict the direction of the valuation and momentum style returns, but not their magnitude. Our results indicate that the mutual funds in our sample were not able to rotate successfully between stocks with small and large market capitalisation.

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  • Laurens Swinkels & Liam Tjong-A-Tjoe, 2007. "Can mutual funds time investment styles?," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(2), pages 123-132, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:assmgt:v:8:y:2007:i:2:d:10.1057_palgrave.jam.2250066
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jam.2250066
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