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Title: Optimal fund menus

Author(s): Jaksa Cvitanic and Julien Hugonnier

Publication Date: August 2018

Keyword(s): asset bundling, linear pricing, Mutual fund menus and screening

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We study the optimal design of a menu of funds by a manager who is required to use linear pricing and does not observe the beliefs of investors regarding one of the risky assets. The optimal menu involves bundling of assets and can be explicitly constructed from the solution to a calculus of variations problem that optimizes over the indirect utility that each type of investor receives. We provide a complete characterization of the optimal menu and show that the need to maintain incentive compatibility leads the manager to offer funds that are inefficiently tilted towards the asset that is not subject to the information friction.

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Cvitanic, J and Hugonnier, J. 2018. 'Optimal fund menus'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13127