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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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May 2013

To Group or Not to Group? Evidence from Mutual Fund Databases

Saurin PATEL, Sergei SARKISSIAN
Despite the overwhelming trend in mutual funds towards team management, empirical studies find no performance benefits for this phenomenon. We show it is caused by large discrepancies in reported managerial structures in CRSP and Morningstar Principia datasets versus SEC records, resulting in up to ...
Keywords: Database discrepancy, Management structure, Performance evaluation, Portfolio holdings
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