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David Blake , Tristan Caulfield , Christos Ioannidis , Ian Tonks ·

YOU? · · 2017 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022109017000229 · OA: W2168901976

We compare two bootstrap methods for assessing mutual fund performance. The first produces narrow confidence intervals due to pooling over time, whereas the second produces wider confidence intervals because it preserves the cross correlation of fund returns. We then show that the average U.K. equity mutual fund manager is unable to deliver outperformance net of fees under either bootstrap. Gross of fees, 95% of fund managers on the basis of the first bootstrap and all fund managers on the basis of the second bootstrap fail to outperform the luck distribution of gross returns.