Exploring the performance of US international bond mutual funds

Fletcher, Jonathan and Marshall, Andrew and Littlejohn, Elizabeth (2023) Exploring the performance of US international bond mutual funds. Financial Review, 58 (4). pp. 765-782. ISSN 0732-8516 (https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12355)

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Abstract

We use a Bayesian regime switching approach to examine the performance enhancement of adding US international bond funds to a domestic bond universe pre and post the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) during January 1999 and May 2022. We find that the international bond funds provide large significant performance enhancement pre the GFC, with an increase in Certainty Equivalent Return (CER) performance of 0.595% (monthly), but none post the GFC. The performance enhancement pre GFC is driven by Large Emerging Market bond funds, which is likely fueled by a substantial drop in the Emerging Market central bank policy rates pre GFC.

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Fletcher, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0568-9145, Marshall, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-1296 and Littlejohn, Elizabeth;
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