Liquidity risk and the performance of UK mutual funds

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2014-10
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Foran, Jason
O'Sullivan, Niall
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We examine the role of liquidity risk, both as a stock characteristic as well as systematic liquidity risk, in UK mutual fund performance for the first time. Using four alternative measures of stock liquidity we extract principal components across stocks in order to construct systematic or market liquidity factors. We find that on average UK mutual funds are tilted towards liquid stocks (except for small stock funds as might be expected) but that, counter-intuitively, liquidity as a stock characteristic is positively priced in the cross-section of fund performance. We find that systematic liquidity risk is positively priced in the cross-section of fund performance. Overall, our results reveal a strong role for stock liquidity level and systematic liquidity risk in fund performance evaluation models.
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Mutual fund performance , Liquidity risk , Liquidity characteristics
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FORAN, J. & O'SULLIVAN, N. 2014. Liquidity risk and the performance of UK mutual funds. International Review of Financial Analysis, 35, 178-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2014.09.001