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Do Active Chinese Equity Fund Managers Produce Positive Alpha? A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation
We examine the performance of actively managed Chinese mutual Funds over the period 2002-2020. Using the bootstrap-based false discovery technique, we find that 19.25% of Chinese actively managed mutual funds produce positive-alpha, which contrasts with existing studies documented by others in developed markets. Our findings survive a battery of robustness tests. Unlike in developed markets, equilibrium accounting may not hold in China as the Chinese stock market is dominated by retail investors instead of mutual funds, and thus the mutual funds in China can be more skilled at the expense of the retail investors. We find supportive evidence of the applicability of the bootstrap-based false discovery rate method by conducting simulations.