Journal article
Do mutual funds profit from the accruals anomaly ?
Journal of accounting research, Vol.46(1), pp.1-26
03/2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2007.00263.x
Abstract
Using data on both fund stockholdings and fund returns, we examine whether actively managed equity mutual funds trade on and profit from the accruals anomaly. We find that few, if any, mutual funds trade on the anomaly. The top 10% of mutual funds that have the highest portfolio weights in low-accruals stocks have a greater, but still relatively small, exposure to low-accruals stocks. Nonetheless, these funds make significant profit net of actual transaction costs, exhibiting an average Fama-French three-factor alpha of 2.83% per year. We also find that these funds are smaller, less diversified, and exhibit higher fund return volatility and higher fund flow volatility.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Do mutual funds profit from the accruals anomaly ?
- Creators
- Ashiq Ali - The University of Texas at DallasXuanjuan Chen - Kansas State UniversityTong Yao - University of ArizonaTong Yu - University of Rhode Island
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of accounting research, Vol.46(1), pp.1-26
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2007.00263.x
- ISSN
- 0021-8456
- eISSN
- 1475-679X
- Number of pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2008
- Academic Unit
- Finance
- Record Identifier
- 9984380514002771
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