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Title: Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds

Author(s): Dunhong Jin, Marcin Kacperczyk, Bige Kahraman and Felix Suntheim

Publication Date: August 2019

Keyword(s): fragility, fund runs, liquidity mismatch, strategic complementarity and swing pricing

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: How to prevent runs on open-end mutual funds? In recent years, markets have observed an innovation that changed the way open-end funds are priced. Alternative pricing rules (known as swing pricing) adjust funds' net asset values to pass on funds' trading costs to transacting shareholders. Using unique data on investor transactions in U.K. corporate bond funds, we show that swing pricing eliminates the first-mover advantage arising from the traditional pricing rule and significantly reduces redemptions during stress periods. The stabilizing effect is internalized particularly by institutional investors and investors with longer investment horizons. The positive impact of alternative pricing rules on fund flows reverses in calm periods when costs associated with higher tracking error dominate the pricing effect.

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Jin, D, Kacperczyk, M, Kahraman, B and Suntheim, F. 2019. 'Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13929