Box Jumping: Portfolio Recompositions to Achieve Higher Morningstar Ratings

I show that actively-managed mutual funds often pursue higher Morningstar ratings at the expense of lower investment returns. Funds achieve higher ratings by changing their holdings to induce Morningstar to reclassify them into size/value style boxes with worse average performance. This practice, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, David Sunghyo
Other Authors: So, Eric C.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155991