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Abstract

We study performance persistence across a global sample of equity mutual funds from 27 countries. In contrast to the existing U.S.-based evidence, we find that net performance persistence is present in the majority of fund industries, suggesting that fund manager skill is commonplace rather than a rarity. Consistent with the intuition that more competition in the mutual fund industry makes remaining a winner fund less likely but keeping a loser fund at the bottom of the performance ranks more probable, we show that competitiveness explains the cross-sectional variation in performance persistence.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ferreira, M., Keswani, A. , Miguel, A. F. and Ramos, S. (2019). What Determines Fund Performance Persistence? International Evidence. Financial Review, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12202. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Publisher Keywords:	mutual fund persistence, manager skill, fund industry competition
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Departments:	Bayes Business School > Faculty of Finance
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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