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The study findings will surprise most Indians as many of India’s top fund managers continue to perform well despite being around for 2 decades!
A study carried out by Bryant University’s Finance Professor Jack Trifts claims that a fund manager’s performance actually gets worse with more experience. According to a release, the study came up with these findings:
Trifts examined data spanning 80 years to identify the best solo fund managers. The study also examined the relationship between performance and tenure of 289 fund managers of 355 actively-managed funds. Trifts claims that the longer a manager runs a fund, the higher the likelihood of mean revision setting in. The study does not even spare Peter Lynch, arguably the best fund manager of all time.
However, this would come as a big surprise to most Indian observers as many of India’s top managers have managed to sustain their performance over two decades, in varying market conditions. Names like Prashant Jain, K. N. Siva Subramanian, R. Sukumar, Apoorva Shah, S. Naren, Mahesh Patil and Kenneth Andrade come immediately to mind.
But the Bryant University study paints a completely different picture of the approximately $3 trillion US fund industry. The findings reveal that even the best solo fund managers “seem to get worse at their craft the longer they practice it.” The study simply states that superior performance is really just random luck.
In fact, this latest study merely echoes the findings of similar studies carried out in the past. Eugene Fama (who developed the efficient market hypothesis in the 60s) and Kenneth French had come out with a study in 2009 which stated that it’s not possible to tell if actively managed funds which beat their benchmarks do so because of luck or skill.
For the US, the jury is out on this one.