We consider a model of active asset management in which mutual fund managers exert unobservable effort to earn excess returns. Investors allocate capital to actively managed funds and passively managed products. In equilibrium, investors are indifferent between investing an additional dollar with an active manager or with a passively managed product. As passively managed products become more attractive to investors, active managers’ revenues from portfolio-management services fall, reducing their effort incentives. More-severe decreasing-returns-to-scale are also associated with reduced incentives and increased moral hazard. Performance-based fees and holdings-based data are all unlikely to mitigate moral hazard.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/625951 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Brown, David C., Davies, Shaun William |
| Contributors | Eller College of Management, University of Arizona |
| Publisher | ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Relation | http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304405X17301010 |
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