Italian Open-End Funds: Performance of Asset Management Companies

38 Pages Posted: 10 May 2011

Date Written: February 15, 2011

Abstract

We empirically analyse the returns of both Italian and round-trip open-end funds managed by Italian asset management companies (SGRs) in the period 2003-2008. Taking into account a modified version of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), we estimated a performance measure for each asset management company and for each fund, as is usually done in the relevant literature. The analysis shows that the performance of any asset management company, with reference to its managed funds, is on average no greater than that of the benchmark chosen by the managers. In addition, as expected, the funds’ systematic risk is close to that of the benchmarks. Finally, robust estimation techniques let us control for the heteroskedasticity due to the presence of outliers and also to the different excess returns of individual funds.

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Keywords: open-end funds, asset management companies, panel data, robust estimators, normal inverse Gaussian distribution

JEL Classification: C16, C23, G10, G23

Suggested Citation

Bianchi, Michele Leonardo and Miele, Maria Grazia, Italian Open-End Funds: Performance of Asset Management Companies (February 15, 2011). Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 795, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1830102 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1830102

Michele Leonardo Bianchi (Contact Author)

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
00184 Rome, I - 00184
Italy

Maria Grazia Miele

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
Rome, 00184
Italy

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