Skilled Mutual Fund Selection: False Discovery Control Under Dependence

DOI10.1080/07350015.2022.2044337MaRDI QIDQ6149869zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 5 March 2024

Published in Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08511

zbMATH Keywords

dependencemixture modelmutual fundlarge scale multiple testingapproximate empirical Bayes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

Abstract: Selecting skilled mutual funds through the multiple testing framework has received increasing attention from finance researchers and statisticians. The intercept $alpha$ of Carhart four-factor model is commonly used to measure the true performance of mutual funds, and positive $alpha$'s are considered as skilled. We observe that the standardized OLS estimates of $alpha$'s across the funds possess strong dependence and nonnormality structures, indicating that the conventional multiple testing methods are inadequate for selecting the skilled funds. We start from a decision theoretic perspective, and propose an optimal testing procedure to minimize a combination of false discovery rate and false non-discovery rate. Our proposed testing procedure is constructed based on the probability of each fund not being skilled conditional on the information across all of the funds in our study. To model the distribution of the information used for the testing procedure, we consider a mixture model under dependence and propose a new method called "approximate empirical Bayes" to fit the parameters. Empirical studies show that our selected skilled funds have superior long-term and short-term performance, e.g., our selection strongly outperforms the S&P 500 index during the same period.

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