Inferring Fund Industry Allocations from Returns and Building a Portfolio

Summary

This study reviews Chinese equity-oriented mixed funds over 2010–2020 and compares their performance with several domestic equity benchmarks across value- and growth-led market periods. It reports that the fund group’s relative results varied with market style, and relates benchmark-like performance to approximate fund-ranking outcomes. The document does not provide the underlying analysis in full, only a summary of its findings.

For identifying strong allocators, it screens funds using the consistency and recency of positive Brinson industry-allocation contributions, with a minimum manager tenure. It then estimates holdings indirectly: over roughly 60 trading days, it compares position-adjusted fund returns with beta-adjusted returns for secondary industries, using return correlations to infer likely major exposures. The resulting industry portfolio is reported to outperform the cited benchmarks over the stated sample, with stronger excess returns in the later period. These are reported historical results; the text gives limited detail on portfolio construction, transaction costs, robustness, or out-of-sample validation, so they do not establish future performance.

Key ideas

• The study compares Chinese equity-oriented mixed funds with domestic benchmarks across market styles.
• Strong industry allocators are screened using historical Brinson attribution, tenure, and recent attribution results.
• Correlations between adjusted fund and industry returns are used to infer likely major industry holdings.
• Historical portfolio returns are reported, but the summary provides limited information about costs and validation.

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