Mutual fund herding behavior and investment strategies in Chinese stock market

Abstract

This investigation studies the impact of mutual fund herding on the returns achieved by contrarian strategy from 1990 to 2015 in the Chinese stock market. The relationship between the profit gained by the contrarian strategy and the macroeconomic environment is also examined. First, the returns of the contrarian strategy in China's stock market are found to be significant. Second, most loser stocks with a high degree of mutual fund herding outperform loser stocks with a low degree of mutual fund herding, revealing that the profitability of an investment portfolio depends on the degree of mutual fund herding. Third, investors should buy loser stocks with a high degree of herding and sell winner stocks with a low degree of herding during a two-year formation period, over which zero-cost contrarian strategies yield the significantly highest return. Finally, the payoff of contrarian strategies is positively related to the herding effect and negatively related to macroeconomic variables.

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“…To be more specific, in the psychological area, there are studies implementing recognition heuristic into stock investment strategy in Europe [1]. There is an analysis of the implications of herding behavior and the effectiveness of contrarian strategy [2]. For the Technology field, combining the deep learning ability of sentiment analyzer with investment strategy has become a new method investors might consider comprehending the extent of the impact of news sentiment on the stock market [3].…”