TORONTO, 12 October 2022 – Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Hillsdale Investment Management – CFA Society Toronto Research Award. This year’s award-winning paper entitled “Outsourced Fund and Risk Taking: A Tale of Two Contracts” is authored by Saurin Patel, Ivey Business School, Western University, Jung Hoon Lee, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, and Shyam Venkatesan, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario.
“The winning paper highlights the importance of a properly structured incentive agreement, including co-branding, co-management, co-location and performance-based fees, in modifying the asymmetric payoff of a typical investment management contract. The authors find that the introduction of these measures leads to less ‘risk-shifting’ which otherwise leads to significant welfare loss by investors in outsourced funds. We wholeheartedly agree.” said Chris Guthrie, CFA, President and CEO, Hillsdale Investment Management Inc.
The Hillsdale Investment Management – CFA Society Toronto Research Award is open to global researchers conducting research related to Canadian capital markets including both academics (e.g. professors and students) and practitioners. Research papers are reviewed by a panel of CFA charterholder investment experts to ensure they are in line with the rigorous values and standards embodied in the CFA designation.
"Teaming up with CFA Society Toronto to support and encourage applied research efforts aligns with Hillsdale Investment Management’s commitment to continuously invest in our process to produce the highest quality strategies for our clients. We believe our award advances new ideas and innovative concepts for the benefit of the entire investment community,” said Harry Marmer, CFA, Executive Vice President, and partner of Hillsdale Investment Management Inc.
Research Paper Abstract
“We investigate the effect of compensation contracts on the conditional risk choice of outsourced mutual funds. Unlike the results from the existing literature, outsourced funds display two times more "strategic" risk-shifting than in-house managed funds to maximize the value of payoffs. We further establish that compensation contracts, along with outsourcing status, have a causal effect on risk-shifting. Our evidence shows this behavior to be more consistent with a motive to manage the risk of contract termination and less with the motive to exploit the optionality in portfolio manager compensation contracts. Fund families can employ additional mechanisms to mitigate the intrinsic risk-shifting behavior of the outsourced managers.”
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