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1 Evaluating Danish Mutual Fund Performance Michael Christensen* Department of Finance The Aarhus School of Business Fuglesangs Allé Aarhus V. Denmark mic@asb.dk Abstract To date analyses of Danish mutual fund performance have been few and mainly pursued by mutual funds themselves or by the Association of Danish Mutual Funds ( The purpose of this paper is to provide the first independent performance analysis of Danish mutual funds, which includes 44 mutual funds that have been in operation since October 994. In this analysis we focus on the Jensen measure of performance considering a single index model and a multi-index model, respectively. Furthermore, we analyse the timing ability of the Danish mutual funds pursuing both the quadratic regressions of Treynor & Mazuy (966) and the option approach suggested by Henriksson & Merton (98). Finally, we consider the influence of management fees and other mutual fund expenses on performance. Keywords: Mutual funds, performance evaluation, market timing, expense ratios. JEL classification: G2, G4, G23

2 . Introduction Since Jensen (968) the research in mutual fund performance has increased significantly and similarly the popularity of mutual fund investments among private investors has grown dramatically during the last 30 years. In Denmark the market value of mutual funds has increased from approximately USD billion in 997 to more than USD 34 billion in 2002, which amounts to a yearly increase of more than 2%. Despite this huge increase in market value there has only been few analyses of Danish mutual fund performance, and the analyses have mainly been pursued by the mutual funds themselves or by the Association of Danish Mutual Funds. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide the first independent analysis of Danish mutual fund performance. The sample includes 44 funds of which 27 funds are equity funds and 7 funds are fixed income funds. The sample period is October 994 to January A fascinating aspect of the earlier mutual fund research was the simultaneous development of performance evaluation methods. Today, however, there is general agreement that the Jensen measure (Jensen s α) is superior to the Sharpe and Treynor measures for a number of reasons. Firstly, the interpretation of the Jensen measure is the risk-adjusted excess return measured in percentage points, which is much easier to communicate to private investors than the Sharpe and Treynor measures that measure the risk-adjusted excess return as a ratio. Secondly, the Jensen measure can easily be estimated from an asset pricing regression, which furthermore provides us with a measure of statistical significance. Thirdly, the Jensen measure is seen relatively to a benchmark. Fourthly, determining the Jensen measure from a regression, one can take account of a non-constant risk-free rate, whereas the Sharpe and Treynor measure use a time average of the risk-free rate. Moreover, Friend & Blume (970) argue that the Jensen measure (and the Treynor measure) is superior to the Sharpe measure because the Jensen and Treynor measure can be applied to both efficient and inefficient securities and portfolios, whereas the Sharpe measure can only be applied to efficient securities and portfolios. Finally, the Jensen (and the Treynor) measure is the appropriate performance measure to apply to a mutual fund performance analysis, since the Jensen measure is based on the security market line, which assumes well diversified portfolios con- 2

3 trary to the Sharpe measure, which measures the portfolio manager s ability to diversify the unsystematic risk. An important drawback of the Jensen measure is, however, that any conclusion reached about fund performance rests on the asset pricing model chosen. Earlier analyses applied the CAPM model, thus recognising the problems associated with the choice of benchmark following the Roll critique, and newer research concludes that the choice of benchmark has important consequences for the performance evaluation. Lehmann & Modest (987) show that the Jensen measure differs significantly between a CAPM and an APT asset pricing model. Similarly, Elton et al. (993) find that a multi-index benchmark seems to be superior to a single-index benchmark. Also Grinblatt & Titman (994) find that mutual fund performance is sensitive to the choice of benchmark, and Gruber (996) argues that a four-variable multi-index model is appropriate. Finally, Carhart (997) argues in favour of a fourfactor multi-index model, which besides the market index includes factors for size, book-to-market equity and the one-year momentum in stock returns. The general conclusion reached in the literature e.g. Jensen (968), Malkiel (99) and Detzler (999) is that mutual funds in the US net of expenses (net returns) have not been able to generate excess returns. However, using gross returns by adding back expenses to the net asset value, superior performance can be identified, but this superior performance is just about equal to their expenses implying a cost elasticity of approximately, see Blake et al. (993) and Detzler (999). This conclusion is very much in line with the Grossman & Stiglitz (980) theory of informationally efficient markets, where informed investors are compensated for their information gathering. Most research on mutual fund performance has been on US mutual funds, see e.g. Malkiel (99), whereas there have only been few analyses of non-us mutual funds. Exceptions are analyses by Dermine & Röller (992) for French mutual funds, Wittrock & Steiner (99) for German mutual funds, Ter Horst et al. (998) for Dutch mutual funds, Cesari & Panetta (2002) for Italian mutual funds, Blake & Timmerman (998) for UK mutual funds, and Dahlquist et al. (2000) for Swedish mutual funds. Furthermore, the first European cross-country analysis has been per- 3

4 formed by Otten & Bams (2002), which includes France, Italy, the UK, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. The overall picture of the Otten & Bams analysis is that they confirm the US evidence for the period 99 to 998, but with two exceptions. Firstly, there seems to be evidence for France, the UK and the Netherlands that small caps have outperformed their benchmarks even after expenses have been deducted, and secondly UK mutual funds exhibit significant positive Jensen α s for net returns as well as for gross returns. However, for Germany and Italy Otten & Bams conclude in favour of the informationally efficient market conclusion, and this evidence is confirmed by Wittrock & Steiner (99) and Cesari & Panetta (2002), respectively. However, the Otten & Bams analysis differs significantly from the Blake & Timmermann study, which conclude that UK mutual funds in general have been under-performing their passive benchmarks. This difference may, however, be due to the fact that the Otten & Bams analysis only includes European funds that are pure domestic equity funds. In a recent study by Dahlquist et al. (2000) they consider Swedish mutual fund performance for 20 equity, bond and money market funds. Their sample is, however, restricted to funds investing only domestically. They show that special equity funds, bond and money market funds have neutral to significantly negative performance, whereas regular equity funds seem to have obtained over-performance. To date no serious evidence on Danish mutual fund performance exits. This is partly because the analyses pursued by the mutual funds themselves and the Association of Danish Mutual Funds are focussed purely on Sharpe ratio comparisons rather than on the Jensen measure, and partly because these studies only compare the mutual funds to each other rather than comparing them to relevant benchmarks. The study in this paper includes equity as well as fixed income funds. Dependent on the actual investment objective of each fund, we relate an appropriate benchmark to each fund and estimate the Jensen measure. First, we consider the standard CAPM security market line regression and then a multi-index model is esti- 4

5 mated for each fund as well as for equally-weighted portfolios. Our general conclusion is that net of expenses none of the 44 Danish mutual funds have been able to obtain superior performance. Most funds have insignificant Jensen α s and funds (%) have significantly negative Jensen α s at the % level. Generalising the single index model to take account of market timing pursuing both the quadratic regression of Treynor & Mazuy (966) and the option approach of Henriksson & Merton (98) does not, however, alter this conclusion that Danish mutual funds have performed neutrally. Moreover, concerning market timing we are not able to document significant timing ability on the part of Danish mutual funds. Out of our sample of 44 mutual funds the quadratic regressions find that only 7 funds (6%) show significant market timing ability, whereas the option regressions only find that funds (%) have possessed market timing ability. The paper is organised as follows. In the next section we describe our data. Section 3 presents the results of the standard CAPM security market line regressions, and in Section 4 we present the results of the multi-index model. In Section we analyse the relevance of timing ability and in Section 6 we consider the influence of expense ratios on fund performance. Section 7 concludes. 2. Data description The sample in this study consists of 44 Danish mutual funds in operation since October 994, and the sample period is October 994 to January The sample is split between 27 equity funds and 7 fixed income funds. In Table the 44 funds are categorised into homogeneous groups according to their investment objectives. Table. Mutual Fund Categorisation In Table funds are categorised into equity and fixed income funds. Equity fund are further categorised into Danish equity funds and foreign equity funds, where we distinguish between various areas as Europe, Eastern Europe, World, Pacific, Japan, North America, and Latin America, and the fixed income funds are further categorised into Danish fixed income funds and foreign fixed income funds. This

6 classification is not based on any statistical analysis, but follows the classification used by the Association of Danish Mutual Funds. An almost similar categorisation is used by Cesari & Panetta (2002) for Italy, although they use cluster analysis. We use net asset values obtained from the Copenhagen Stock Exchange through Bonnier A/S and returns are determined as log returns using monthly observations, which amount to a total of 87 observations. The net asset values have been corrected to include dividends, and we have assumed that dividends are reinvested the day after the day where dividends have been declared. Excess returns are obtained by subtracting the -month CIBOR rate from the net asset returns. Based on the different categories in Table a number of benchmarks will be applied. For Danish equities we use the KFX index, which includes the 20 Danish equities with the highest market value. However, the KFX index supplied by the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, is not corrected for dividends, and therefore we use a dividend-corrected KFX index obtained from Belter & Tanggaard (200). Most of the benchmarks applied for the foreign equity funds are obtained from Morgan Stanley. These include MSCI Europe, MSCI EM Eastern Europe, MSCI World, MSCI AC Pacific Free Ex. Japan, MSCI Japan, and MSCI EMF Latin America. For the North America fund we use the S&P 00 index. The MSCI indices are obtained form Morgan Stanley, and the S&P 00 index is obtained from Datastream. All indices are measured in Danish Kroner, dividends are included and assumed reinvested, and excess returns are again determined by subtracting the -month CIBOR rate. On the fixed income side the benchmark applied for the funds, which invest in Danish fixed income is the J. P. Morgan Denmark Government Bond index, whereas the J. P. Morgan Global Broad ex. Denmark index is used for the foreign fixed income funds. These indices include coupon payments, are measured in Danish Kroner, and are obtained from Datastream. In order to check the robustness of the results, we have also applied the EFFAS indices obtained from Bloomberg. Although we have distinguished between short term funds and long term funds using the EFFAS -3 years maturity index and the EFFAS all government bond > year index, respectively, the results are almost identical to the results obtained using the J. P. Mor- 6

7 gan indices with the exception that the goodness-of-fit using J. P. Morgan indices are in almost all cases marginally superior to the goodness-of-fit obtained using the EFFAS indices. Therefore, only results based on the J. P. Morgan indices will be reported below. An important issue that has been discussed thoroughly in the literature, see e.g. Brown et al. (992), is survivorship bias. As argued by Malkiel (99) the analysis will significantly overstate the returns if one systematically ignores the nonsurviving funds. We believe, however, that this study of Danish mutual funds is free of survivorship bias, because no funds have defaulted during the analysis period and therefore we include virtually all the funds that have been in operation during the period October 994 to January In Table 2 we provide summary statistics for the whole sample of 44 mutual funds and the benchmarks used in this analysis. Table 2. Summary statistics For each of the categories and benchmarks we present the excess return and the standard deviation measured annually. Furthermore, the Jarque-Bera statistic for normality and its probability value have been calculated for each fund and the benchmarks. Dybvig & Ross (98) and Grinblatt & Titman (989) show that the Jensen measure is biased if the fund and benchmark returns are not jointly normal or are non-linear. This motivates the test for normality in this sample. From Table 2 we conclude that for half of the funds and for 60% of the benchmarks normality cannot be rejected. This means that normality is rejected for approximately half of the sample, and we therefore need to be careful when interpreting the inference of the Jensen measure in the empirical analysis below. Although we use excess returns, we have also tested for stationarity applying the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test. In our case the critical % value is 3.46, and from Table 2 we infer, as expected, that in all cases we cannot reject stationarity. 7

8 3. Performance using the single index model In this section we estimate the Jensen measure of performance based on the standard CAPM security market line. We estimate the security market line for each of the 44 mutual funds as well as for equally-weighted portfolios within each investment category. The regressions can be formalised as: r it r ft = α i + β i (r mt r ft ) + ε it () where r it, r ft and r mt are the returns at month t of the i th fund (the i th equallyweighted portfolio), the risk-free return and the benchmark return, respectively, α i is the Jensen measure, and β i is a measure of the systematic risk of fund (portfolio) i. Finally, ε it is a white noise error term. Equation () indicates that the excess return on fund (portfolio) i is linearly related to the excess return on the benchmark. Equation () is estimated by OLS but in order to account for potential serial correlation and heteroscedasticity, we use Newey-West corrected standard errors. In Table 3 we present the estimation results obtained from equation (), but only the average results within each fund category is presented. However, taking simple averages within each group does not yield meaningful standard errors and t-statistics. Therefore, the reported t-statistics, the β s and the adjusted coefficients of determination (R 2 -adj) are obtained from the equally-weighted portfolios based on the mutual funds in each category. The general conclusion in Table 3 is that none of the 44 mutual funds have been able to over-perform their passive benchmarks. The Jensen measure is in most cases negative and not statistically significant. From the individual regressions we find that funds have a significantly negative Jensen measure at the % level. No funds have a significantly positive Jensen measure at the % level. We can therefore conclude that net of expenses the performance of Danish mutual funds has been neutral. 8

9 Table 3. Summary statistics of the Jensen measure The single-index model This is further confirmed by Figure, which presents the distribution of the α s, and as expected we infer that the distribution is close to being symmetric around zero. Figure. Frequency distribution of estimated Jensen α s Thus, these preliminary results indicate that Danish mutual funds net of expenses have not been able to beat the market. On the other hand, most funds have performed neutrally i.e., they have been able to obtain gross returns just sufficient to cover their expenses, leaving the fund members with net returns that are not significantly different from the passive benchmark returns. In order to validate the robustness of this conclusion, the asset pricing model is extended to a multi-index model following Elton et al. (993) and Gruber (996) in the next section. 4. Performance using the multi-index model The choice of benchmark has been discussed intensively in the literature. In the single index security market line model only one benchmark is applied, which implicitly assumes that the fund has a well-defined investment objective, which can be represented by one single benchmark. Simultaneously, we assume that the relevant underlying asset pricing model is the CAPM. Kon & Jen (978) compare the CAPM with Black s zero beta model and argues in favour of the zero beta model. Similarly, Lehman & Modest (987) find that the Jensen measure differs significantly between a CAPM and an APT model. Grinblatt & Titman (989) and (994) use alternative benchmarks in their analyses and conclude that the Jensen measure differs considerably between these benchmarks. Opposed to these results Ippolito (989) argues that different alternative benchmarks do not alter his basic conclusion that 43 US mutual funds over the period outperformed passive index funds. The Ippolito conclusion was controversial, when it was published, and Elton et al. (993) show, that his conclusion 9

10 rests on his choice of benchmark. In fact, Ippolito analyses mutual fund performance relative to the S&P 00 index despite including funds that invest in non-s&p 00 stocks. When Elton et al. (993) include a non-s&p 00 benchmark, Ippolito s conclusion is reversed. Besides including the non-s&p 00 benchmark, Elton et al. (993) also include a bond index in their analysis. Similarly, Gruber (996) argues in favour of including both equity and bond indices as benchmarks as well as he includes factors for size and growth following Carhart (997), who finds that factors for size, book-to-market equity and the one-year momentum in stock returns affect mutual fund returns. Finally, Kothari & Warner (200) argue that standard performance measures depend on the benchmarks ability to mimic the fund style, and therefore benchmarks must be selected carefully. From Table 3 we inferred that the R 2 -adj statistics were between 0.70 and 0.96 indicating that the chosen benchmarks are not able to fully explain the mutual fund returns. In Denmark the legislation regulating mutual funds states that 7% of the investments performed by the funds must be within the main investment category. This means that the individual mutual fund is free to invest within any investment area for up to 2% of its asset value 2. If Danish mutual funds in fact use this opportunity, a single index model is obviously not appropriate. In order to account for this opportunity to invest up to 2% of the asset values in other investment areas than the primary area, we will formulate a multi-factor model based on Elton et al. (993) and Gruber (996) including both equity and fixed income indices. The multi-factor model reads as: r it r ft = α i + β im (r mt r ft ) + β ikfx (r KFXt r ft ) + β iw (r Wt r ft ) + β id (r Dt r ft ) + β ig (r Gt r ft ) + ε it (2) The main motivation for equation (2) is that a fund whose main investment objective is to invest in Danish stocks can according to Danish legislation invest up to 2% of its assets in foreign equities, in Danish bonds or in foreign bonds. In order to measure these different possibilities we include the following relevant factors, where: 0

11 - r KFXt : the return on the Danish KFX index at month t - r Wt : the return on the MSCI world index at month t - r Dt : the return on the J.P. Morgan Denmark Government Bond index at month t - r Gt : the return on the J.P. Morgan Global Broad ex. Denmark index at month t In the case of a mutual fund whose main purpose is to invest in Danish equities, r mt = r KFXt, and equation (2) becomes a four-factor model, but in the case of a mutual fund that primarily invests in Japan, say, r mt equals the excess return on MSCI Japan, and equation (2) becomes a five-factor model etc. In Table 4 we present the results of the multi-index model. Again standard errors are Newey-West corrected and t-statistics and R 2 -adj. are obtained from the equally-weighted portfolios. Table 4. Summary statistics of the Jensen measure The multi-index model The general conclusion to be drawn from Table 4 is that the results are almost similar to the results obtained from the single index CAPM in Table 3. Most of the Jensen α s are negative and not significantly different from zero. From the individual regressions we find that 4 funds have performed significantly negative at the % level compared to funds in Table 3. 3 of these funds are the same. However, making a close inspection of the individual regressions (not reported), we find that in special cases the multi-index model provides superior information to the single index model. E.g. the KFX index plays a positive and significant role for two of the world equity funds, and the world equity index has a significant and positive influence on the Japanese and the US funds. Further, for 4 out of the 4 Danish fixed income funds the J.P. Morgan Global Broad ex. Denmark index plays a positive and significant role, and likewise the J.P. Morgan Government Denmark index has a positive and significant influence on 2 of the 3 global fixed income funds. There is, however, no indication that equity funds have been investing in fixed in-

12 come products as well as we find no evidence that fixed income funds have been investing in equities. These results are very much in line with our expectations, since otherwise the funds will be registered as balanced funds, which will affect the way the funds are taxed, see note 2. However, it is worth pointing out that although the return of some funds is related to more than just one index, we infer from Table 4 that the goodness-of-fit is only marginally higher compared to the goodness-of-fit in Table 3 indicating that the standard security market line model does the job almost as well as the multi-index model. Accordingly, the main conclusion is not altered that is, the multi-index model confirms that in general Danish mutual funds have performed neutrally, and mutual fund investors have obtained net returns that are not significantly different from the passive benchmark returns. Although the multi-index model validates the results of the single index model, we will examine the robustness of the results further by considering whether mutual funds have been able to time the market that is, we test their timing ability. But as shown in this section, the results of the multi-index model are indistinguishable from the results obtained applying the standard CAPM single index model, and therefore the next section will proceed adopting the CAPM single index model as our reference asset pricing model.. Timing and selectivity In the previous sections the performance evaluation has focused on the selectivity of the Danish mutual funds that is, whether Danish mutual funds have been able to obtain significant and positive Jensen measures. This kind of selectivity is often referred to as micro forecasting or security analysis as opposed to macro forecasting, which concerns forecasts of price movements of the general market as a whole, which is also called market-timing, see Fama (972). If fund managers change the fund beta (β) according to their expectations of bull and bear markets, β i becomes a decision variable, which will not be constant, see Kon & Jen (978). In this case mutual funds are expected to be able to time the 2

13 market, which has important implications for the performance evaluation performed in the previous sections. Although this was recognised as early as in the study by Jensen (968), he argued that timing ability would make us overestimate the true α s. But as shown by Grant (977), in fact, market timing implies that the estimate of Jensen s α becomes downward biased that is, our estimate of Jensen s α will be less than the true α, and we are inclined to underestimate the actual performance of mutual funds. Empirically, a number of studies have analysed the ability of mutual funds to time the market, and most of these analyses seem to agree that mutual funds do not possess timing ability. For example, Treynor & Mazuy (966) find using a quadratic equation that for only one out of 7 mutual funds the hypothesis of no timing ability could be rejected, and Veit & Cheney (982) conclude that in general mutual funds do not change their characteristic lines in bull and bear markets and specifically a majority of those few funds that did change their characteristic lines, their timing was unsuccessful. In fact, only 3 out of 74 mutual funds obtained a successful timing. These conclusions are confirmed by Henriksson (984), who applies parametric as well as non-parametric techniques developed by Merton (98) and Henriksson & Merton (98). His sample consists of 6 US open-end mutual funds, and he finds no evidence of market timing ability for the period 968 to 980. Using an extended version of the Henriksson & Merton model, Connor & Korajczyk (99) and Hendricks et al. (993) confirm that US mutual funds do not possess timing ability. Finally, Grinblatt & Titman (994) analyse performance using different measures as the Jensen measure, the Treynor & Mazuy measure and their own PPW measure. However, they conclude that the results are insensitive to the measure used and the simple Jensen measure performs as well as the Treynor & Mazuy measure and consequently inferences based on a pure selection basis is as good as inferences based on the quadratic regression, where an explicit distinction is made between selection and timing ability. Exceptions to the general conclusion that mutual funds have no timing ability are Kon & Jen (978), who argue using a switching regression model that for most of the 49 US mutual funds analysed, they cannot reject nonstationarity of the systematic risk, and Lee & Rahman (990), who find that out of 93 US mutual funds, 7% 3

14 show significant timing ability and % show a positive and significant Jensen measure that is, selectivity. In fact, 0 funds (%) have both significant timing and selection ability. A number of alternative methods have been suggested in the literature to test the timing ability of mutual fund managers, and in this analysis we will apply two different methods to validate the robustness of the results on Danish mutual fund performance. The first specific test of the timing skill of mutual funds was developed by Treynor & Mazuy (966), who argue that if the mutual fund manager acts as if he can time the market, he will hold a greater proportion of the market portfolio, when he expects the return on the market will be high and vice versa. In fact, he will adjust the portfolio β according to the return on the market portfolio as: β it = b i0 + b i (r mt r ft ) (3) and substituting equation (3) into equation (), we find: r it r ft = α i + b i0 (r mt r ft ) + b i (r mt r ft ) 2 + ε it (4) which gives us the quadratic Treynor & Mazuy equation. Compared to the standard single index model, equation (4) includes a new term, which is the excess market return squared. From estimates of the parameters in equation (4), we are able to distinguish between selection and timing abilities. If α i is positive and significantly different from zero, we identify selection ability, as in the single index model, and if b i is positive and significant, the mutual fund manager possesses timing ability. Jensen (972) develops a model in which he defines a signal given as π t = [(r mt -r ft ) - E(r mt -r ft )], where E(r mt -r ft ) is the unconditional expected value of the market excess return. The signal π t can be interpreted as the market excess return forecast error. Under various assumptions Jensen shows that the portfolio β is determined by the sum of a target portfolio β and a proportion of the expected signal, and it can be 4

15 shown that this model is consistent with the Treynor & Mazuy quadratic equation, see e.g. Lee & Rahman (990). The quadratic equation of Treynor & Mazuy (966), Jensen (972), Lee & Rahman (990) and others is one of the different specifications, which will be applied below to test timing and selectivity ability of the Danish mutual funds. The second specification applied in this study follows the Merton (98) and Henriksson & Merton (98) option approach. In their model the mutual fund manager is assumed to receive a binary signal, which can take two distinct values depending on the true outcome of the market return. Based on these two distinct signals, the mutual fund manager chooses one of two values of the portfolio β, and they show that this extends the standard CAPM security market line specification to: r it r ft = α i + β i (r mt r ft ) + γ i Max[-(r mt r ft ) ; 0] + ε it () where the new term represents an informational advantage represented by a no cost put option on the market portfolio. Henriksson & Merton (98) argue that it is possible to distinguish between selectivity and timing ability in equation (). For a positive and significant α i, we identify selection skills, as in the single index model, and for a positive and significant γ i the mutual fund manager possesses timing ability. The two approaches promoted by Treynor & Mazuy (966) and Henriksson & Merton (98) focus on testing whether mutual funds possess timing ability, and both tests are consistent with the standard CAPM security market model with a time-varying systematic risk factor, β. In the general case, however, even for passively managed mutual funds the systematic risk is likely to vary over the market cycle, since the portfolio beta is a market-weighted average of the individual security betas, and market price changes will affect the weighting and accordingly the portfolio beta will be time-varying. Further to this observation, Merton (973) develops his intertemporal CAPM, which gives a theoretical motivation of why beta is time varying over the investment cycle. Following this line of thought Christopherson et al. (999) argue that not only may the systematic risk (β) be time-varying, but also one

16 would suspect that the Jensen measure is time-varying. They ague that both α and β are functions of market information variables, and in their empirical test they use dividend yield and the detrended level of short-term Treasury yields as market information variables, and they find some support for their hypothesis of timevarying alphas (α). At this point it is worth mentioning that the Treynor & Mazuy quadratic regression in fact is consistent with the hypothesis of a time-varying Jensen measure. If we assume following the definition of the time-varying β it, see equation (3) that α it = a i0 + a i (r mt r ft ) that is, the Jensen measure is linearly related to the excess market return, we find substituting into equation (4) that: r it r ft = a i0 + [a i + b i0 ](r mt r ft ) + b i (r mt r ft ) 2 + ε it (6) To the econometrician equation (4) cannot be distinguished from equation (6), and therefore equation (4) is consistent with the more general specification, where both alpha and beta are functions of the excess market return. The two different specifications given by equations (4) and () are able to provide us with an estimate of the performance (selection ability) of the Danish mutual funds analysed. Furthermore, we can separate selection and timing ability. We believe that these two models are able to explore important potential differences in the behaviour of Danish mutual funds concerning selection and timing ability. Firstly, we will test the selection and timing ability of Danish mutual funds pursuing the Treynor & Mazuy quadratic regression approach. Again, we only report the results of the 0 different investment groups as categorised in Table 2, where the t- statistics are obtained from equally weighted portfolios within each of the 0 categories. The estimation results are presented in Table. Since we focus on selection and timing ability, we only present the estimates of α i and b i, see equation (4). Again t-statistics are based on Newey-West corrected standard errors to correct for po- 6

17 tential serial correlation and heteroscedasticity. In this case, it is particularly important to obtain heteroscedasticity consistent standard errors, because adding a quadratic term to the regression equation imposes a heteroscedasticity type of problem into the model. Table. Summary statistics of selection and timing ability The Treynor & Mazuy quadratic model Compared to the previous analyses, Table provides a number of new and interesting results. Firstly, we infer that although most of the estimated α s are still negative and not significantly different from zero, we see that the Japanese fund has been able to obtain a significant and positive α and based on the portfolio standard error the Danish fixed income funds have as a group obtained a significant and negative α, despite that none of the 4 individual funds have significant α s. However, we see no significant differences between the absolute values of the α s across tables 3, 4 and, and evidently, we cannot confirm the observation by Grant (977), who argued that ignoring market timing, we tend to underestimate the true alphas. Secondly, Table shows that most of the equity fund managers and global fixed income managers did not possess market timing ability, whereas 2 out of Pacific equity fund managers and out of 4 Danish fixed income fund managers seem to have been able to time the market. The market timing parameter is in most cases insignificant for equity funds and global fixed income funds and even significantly negative in cases. However, we cannot conclude that Danish fixed income managers in general are able to time the market, since the majority that is, 9 out of 4 funds, show an insignificant positive timing ability parameter. But taking a closer look at the Danish fixed income funds that show a significant timing ability, 4 out of these funds obtained significantly negative selection ability in terms of significantly negative α s The main conclusion to be drawn from the quadratic model is that taking account of a potential market timing ability on the part of Danish mutual fund managers, 7

18 our estimates of their selection ability parameter α is insignificant, and still the overall picture is that most funds have performed neutrally. Exceptions are funds that have performed significantly negative and fund that has performed significantly positive. Furthermore, we find no general tendency that mutual funds have been able to time the market. Exceptions are 7 (6%) Pacific equity funds and Danish fixed income funds out of a total sample of 44 mutual funds. To validate the robustness of these results we will now consider the option approach of Henriksson & Merton (98) that is, we will estimate equation () for the 44 individual funds as well as for the category portfolios. The results are presented in Table 6. Table 6. Summary statistics of selection and timing ability The Henriksson & Merton option model The evidence in Table 6 as far as selection ability is concerned is almost identical to the evidence of the quadratic model in Table. The estimates of α are marginally higher in Table 6, but again most α s are insignificant and again the Japanese equity fund shows up as an exception with a significant and positive α. A few funds have obtained a significant and negative α, and the 4 Danish fixed income funds with significantly negative α s are the same funds in Table and Table 6. Concerning timing ability we also find almost identical results in the quadratic and the option models. In Table the quadratic regression indicated that 7 funds had been successful market timers, whereas the option model is able to identify funds with timing ability. of the 7 funds in Table are identical to the funds in Table 6. Although we analyse the selection and timing ability of the Danish mutual funds applying two different models, the results are very similar, and furthermore the results concerning selectivity are identical to the results obtained from the single index and the multi-index models. On this basis, we believe that our conclusion that the Danish mutual funds have performed neutrally with no particular selection and timing ability is robust. 8

19 6. Performance and expenses As mentioned in the Introduction Blake et al. (993) and Detzler (999) find that a % increase in mutual fund expense tends to lower the performance by approximately %. In order to analyse the response from expense ratios to performance for the Danish mutual funds, we will follow Detzler (999), and perform the following regression: α i = c i0 + c i [expense i ] + ε it (7) where i =, 2, 44, α i is the estimated Jensen measure for fund i, and expense i is the expense ratio for fund i. Equation (7) postulates a simple linear relationship between the performance measure and the expense ratio, and the US evidence is c i -. The expense data have kindly been provided by Jesper Kirstein. We estimate equation (7) using OLS with Newey-West corrected standard errors for each of the 4 different models applied in this study that is, the standard CAPM single index model, the multi-index model, the Treynor & Mazuy quadratic model, and finally the Henriksson & Merton option model. The estimation results are presented in Table 7. Table 7. Summary statistics of performance and expense ratios The conclusion to be drawn from Table 7 is clearly that irrespectively of the model used, we find absolutely no relationship between mutual fund performance and mutual fund expense ratios. Although the sensitivity parameter c i is negative in all four cases, it is not significantly different from zero at any conventional significance level. Consequently, we are not able confirm the US evidence. 7. Conclusions Although Danish mutual fund assets have grown by more than 2% annually during the last 6 years, this study is the first independent analysis of Danish mutual fund performance. We have analysed a survivorship free sample of 44 funds divided into 9

20 27 equity funds and 7 fixed income funds that have been in operation since October 994. Applying various different models as the standard CAPM single index model, a multi-index model incorporating national and global equity and fixed income benchmarks, the quadratic Treynor & Mazuy (966) model as well as the options model of Henriksson & Merton (98), we have analysed the selection and timing abilities of these funds. The general conclusion is that we have not been able to identify significant performance that is, Danish mutual funds have not possessed selection ability. In most cases, their performance have been neutral and in a few cases we find even significantly negative performance. Concerning timing ability the general conclusion is also negative. Only in few cases we find evidence in favour of significant timing ability, but most of the funds that have been successful market timers show significantly negative selection ability. Finally, we have analysed whether fund performance is related to the expense ratios, but we find no evidence whatsoever to sustain this hypothesis. Although we cannot confirm the US evidence on the relationship between expense ratios and fund performance, our results on performance concerning selection and timing abilities are very much in line with the US evidence. We cannot reject that Danish mutual funds net of expenses have performed neutrally, which is consistent to the Grossman & Stiglitz theory of informationally efficient markets. 20

21 References Belter, K. & C. Tanggaard, 200: Et Dansk Udbyttejusteret Aktieindeks: , FINANS/INVEST, no., pp. -4. Blake, C.R., E.J. Elton & M.J. Gruber, 993: The Performance of Bond Mutual Funds, Journal of Business, 66, pp Blake, D. & A. Timmermann, 998: Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence for the UK, European Finance Review, 2, pp Brown, S.J., W.N. Goetzmann, R.G. Ibbotson & S.A. Ross, 992: Survivorship Bias in Performance Studies, The Review of Financial Studies,, 4, pp Carhart, M.M., 997: On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance, Journal of Finance, 2, pp Cesari, R. & F. Panetta, 2002: The Performance of Italian Equity Funds, Journal of Banking and Finance, 26, pp Christopherson, J.A., W.E. Ferson & A.L. Turner, 999: Performance Evaluation Using Conditional Alphas and Betas, Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall, pp Connor, G. & R.A. Korajczyk, 99: The Attributes, Behavior, and Performance of U.S. Mutual Funds, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting,, pp Dahlquist, M., S. Engström & P. Söderlind, 2000: Performance and Characteristics of Swedish mutual Funds, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 3, pp Dermine, D. & L.H. Röller, 992: Economies of Scale and Scope in French Mutual Funds, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2, pp Detzler, M. L., 999: The Performance of Global Bond Mutual Funds, Journal of Banking and Finance, 23, pp Dybvig, P. & S. Ross, 98: Differential Information and Performance Measurement using a Security Market Line, Journal of Finance, 40, pp Elton, E.J., M.J. Gruber, S. Das & M. Hlavka, 993: Efficiency with Costly Information: A Reinterpretation of Evidence from Manager Portfolios, Review of Financial Studies, 6, pp Fama, E.F., 972: Components of Investment Performance, Journal of Finance, 27, pp. -6. Friend, I. & M. Blume, 970: Measurement of Portfolio Performance under Uncertainty, American Economic Review, September, pp Grant, D., 977: Portfolio Performance and the Cost of Timing Decisions, Journal of Finance, 32, pp Grinblatt, M. & S. Titman, 989: Mutual Fund Performance: An Analysis of Quarterly Portfolio Holdings, Journal of Business, 62, pp Grinblatt, M. & S. Titman, 994: A Study of Monthly Mutual Fund Returns and Performance Evaluation Techniques, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 29, pp Grossman, S. & J.E. Stiglitz, 980: On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets, American Economic Review, 70, pp Gruber, M., 996: Another Puzzle: The Growth in Actively Managed Mutual Funds, The Journal of Finance,, no. 3, pp Hendricks, D., J. Patel & R. Zeckhauser, 993: Hot Hands in Mutual Funds: Short- Run Persistence of Relative Performance, , Journal of Finance, 48, pp

22 Henriksson, R.D., 984: Market Timing and Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of Business, 7, pp Henriksson, R.D. & R.C. Merton, 98: On Market Timing and Investment Performance II: Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills, Journal of Business, 4, pp Ippolito, R., 989: Efficiency with Costly Information: A Study of Mutual Fund performance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 04, pp Jensen, M.C., 968: The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period , Journal of Finance, 23, pp Jensen, M.C., 972: Optimal Utilization of Market Forecasts and the Evaluation of Investment Performance, in G.P. Szego & K.Shell (eds.): Mathematical Methods in Investment and Finance, Amsterdam, Elsevier. Kon, S.J. & F.C. Jen, (978): Estimation of Time-Varying Systematic Risk and Performance for Mutual Fund Portfolios: An Application of Switching Regression, Journal of Finance, 33, pp Kothari, S.P. & J.B. Warner, 200: Evaluating Mutual Fund Performance, Journal of Finance, 6, pp Lee, C. & S. Rahman, 990: Market Timing, Selectivity, and Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of Business, 63, pp Lehmann, B. & D. Modest, 987: Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation: A Comparison of Benchmarks and Benchmark Comparisons, Journal of Finance, 42, pp Malkiel, B.G., 99: Returns from Investing in Equity Mutual Funds 97 to 99, The Journal of Finance, 0, no. 2, pp Merton, R.C., 973: An Intertemporal Capital Asset pricing Model, Econometrica, 4, pp Merton, R.C., 98: On Market Timing and Investment Performance I: An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecats, Journal of Business, 4, pp Otten, R. & D. Bams, 2002: European Mutual Fund Performance, European Financial Management, 8,, pp Sharpe, W.F., 994: The Sharpe Ratio, The Journal of Portfolio Management, pp Ter Horst, J.R., T. Nijman & F. de Roon, 998: Style Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Dutch Mutual Funds, CentER Discussion Paper No Treynor, J.L. & K.K. Mazuy, 966: Can Mutual Funds Outguess the Market? Harvard Business Review, 44, pp Veit, E. T. & J. M. Cheney, 982: Are Mutual Funds Market Timers?, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter, pp Wittrock, C. & M. Steiner, 99: Performance-messung ohne Rückgriff auf Kapitalmarkttheoretische Renditeerwatungsmodelle, Kredit und Kapital, pp

23 Footnotes * I am grateful to Lars Rasmussen for research assistance, comments from Jan Bartholdy, Tom Engsted and Asger Lunde and to Jesper Kirstein for supplying his expense data. The usual disclaimer applies.. Whereas, the original Sharpe ratio measures the excess return over the riskfree rate, Sharpe (994), however, extents the ratio to account for the excess return over a benchmark rate. 2. Danish mutual funds are not allowed to invest these 2% in the money market, which means that they must invest in either equities and/or bonds. Most funds will, however, choose to invest solely in equities or solely in bonds, since otherwise the fund will be classified as a mixed fund, changing how the fund is taxed. 23

24 Mutual funds Danish equities Foreign equities - Europe - Eastern Europe - World 6 - Pacific - Japan - North America - Latin America 3 Danish fixed income 4 Foreign fixed income 3 Total 44 Table. Mutual Fund Categorisation KFX Benchmarks MSCI Europe MSCI EM Eastern Europe MSCI World MSCI AC Pacific Free ex. Japan MSCI Japan S&P 00 MSCI EMF Latin America J.P. Morgan Government Bond Denmark J.P. Morgan Global Broad ex. Denmark Table 2. Summary statistics No. of funds Excess return Aug. Dickey Fuller Standard deviation Jarque- Bera Probability No. passed Mutual funds Danish equities Foreign equities - Europe - Eastern Europe - World - Pacific - Japan - North America - Latin America ,77 -, -,24 -,93-4, ,69 -, Danish bonds Foreign bonds ,23 -, Benchmarks KFX MSCI Europe MSCI East. Euro MSCI World MSCI Pacific MSCI Japan MSCI Latin Am. S & P 00 JPM Denmark JPM Global , -,39 -,06 -, ,8 -,74 -,72-4,9-6, Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes 24

25 Table 3. Summary statistics of the Jensen measure The single-index model Mutual funds No. of funds α t-stat. No. significant β R 2 -adj. Danish equities Foreign equities - Europe - Eastern Europe - World - Pacific - Japan - North America - Latin America , () () Danish bonds Foreign bonds (3) All funds () In the fifth column we indicate the number of funds in each category, which have a significantly positive (negative) α at the % level. Figure. Frequency distribution of estimated Jensen α s Frequency , -0,09-0,07-0,0-0,03-0,0 0,0 0,03 0,0 0,07 Jensen's alpha 2

26 Table 4. Summary statistics of the Jensen measure The multi-index model Mutual funds No. of funds α t-stat. No. significant R 2 -adj. Danish equities Foreign equities - Europe - Eastern Europe - World - Pacific - Japan - North America - Latin America , Danish bonds Foreign bonds (4) All funds (4) 0.8 In the fifth column we indicate the number of funds in each category, which have a significantly positive (negative) α at the % level. Table. Summary statistics of selection and timing ability The Treynor & Mazuy quadratic model Mutual funds No. of funds α t- stat. No. significant b i t-stat. No. significant Danish equities Foreign equities - Europe - Eastern Europe - World - Pacific - Japan - North America - Latin America () (2) () 2 () () Danish bonds Foreign bonds (4) All funds () 7 () In the fifth and eight column we indicate the number of funds in each category, which have a significantly positive (negative) α i and b i at the % level, respectively. 26

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