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- Title
Mutual Fund Incentive Fees: Determinants and Effects.
- Authors
Drago, Danilo; Lazzari, Valter; Navone, Marco
- Abstract
We investigate the how and why of performance fee provisions in a free contracting environment such as the Italian mutual fund market until 2006. We find weak support for the hypothesis that these provisions emerge as an economically efficient solution in a rational asset management industry plagued by asymmetric information. They appear to emerge mainly as the product of strategic pricing by asset managers wishing to ease market competition, leverage on investors' sentiment, and hedge their cost structure. Alternatively, fears that managers may opportunistically alter funds' investment policies to maximize the option value embedded in the incentive provisions appear unjustified.
- Subjects
ITALY; MUTUAL fund management; ASSET management; FINANCIAL leverage; COST structure; INVESTMENT policy; OPTION value; LABOR incentives; MONEY market funds; HEDGE funds; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Financial Management (Wiley-Blackwell), 2010, Vol 39, Issue 1, p365
- ISSN
0046-3892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1755-053X.2010.01076.x