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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (10): 40-48.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2020.2269

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Mutual Funds' Dynamic Liquidity Risk Management

Dan-yang WANG1,Lu-shi YAO2()   

  1. 1.School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
    2.School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • Received:2020-11-29 Revised:2021-03-12 Online:2023-10-15 Published:2023-11-03
  • Contact: Lu-shi YAO E-mail:yaolushi@ sina.com

Abstract:

Liquidity risk management is particularly relevant for mutual funds as they face redemption risk induced by investors’ discretion. When market volatility surges, the probability of fund performance falling below threshold increases, which triggers investor redemption. Especially when funds don’t have enough liquid assets to meet redemption, they will have to fire sale illiquid assets and bear considerable liquidity costs. More importantly, mutual funds’ asset liquidating behavior continuously pulls down asset prices, causes externality to other funds and negatively affects market stability. It is of paramount importance to discuss mutual funds’ liquidity risk management in a volatile market.Using a sample of Chinese mutual funds from 2006-2018, the signal, existence and performance implication of two kinds of mutual fund dynamic liquidity management strategy are tested. First, the relationship between market volatility and fund flow is examined. It is the premise to adopt market volatility as a dynamic signal for fund liquidity risk management. Second, relationship between expected market volatility and fund liquidity is tested, in order to reexamine the dynamic liquidity cushion strategy discovered in American stock market. Third, another novel dynamic liquidity management strategy is proposed and it is named as the liquidity commonality reduction strategy. When market volatility goes up, market liquidity goes down. Mutual fund can reserve liquidity by reducing their liquidity sensitivity to the declining market liquidity. The relationship between expected market volatility and fund liquidity commonality is tested, so as to explore the existence of this strategy. Finally, the performance implication of the two dynamic liquidity risk management strategies is examined. It is found that expected market volatility is negatively related to fund flows. It may be an effective signal for fund redemption pressure and thus liquidity risk management. Results show, both dynamic liquidity cushion and liquidity commonality reduction behavior exist in Chinese capital market, but only the latter one can significantly improve fund performance. This study provides empirical evidence for fund managers and regulators to draw up effective plans to manage liquidity risk.

Key words: mutual funds, market volatility, liquidity, liquidity commonality

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