Finance Seminar（2017-23）

Topic: Dynamic Liquidity Management by Corporate Bond Mutual Funds

Speaker: Ashley W. Wang, US Federal Reserve Board

Time: Monday, 18 December, 11:30-13:00

Place: Room 217, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract:

Corporate bond mutual funds tend to hold illiquid assets but provide liquid claims to their investors. How do they manage liquidity to meet investor redemptions? We show that, during tranquil market conditions, these funds tend to reduce liquid asset holdings such as cash and government bonds to meet investor redemptions, temporarily increasing their relative exposures to illiquid asset classes. During periods with heightened aggregate uncertainty, however, they tend to scale down their liquid and illiquid asset proportionally, thereby preserving the liquidity of their portfolios. This fund-level dynamic management of liquidity appears to impact the broad financial market: flows-induced trades in corporate bonds by these funds during high-uncertainty periods generate price pressures, which precede strong return reversals.

Introduction:

Dr. Ashley W. Wang is chief of the Short-Term Funding Markets (STFM) of The Federal Reserve Board. She obtained her Ph.D in Finance from University of California - Los Angeles in 2003. Her research interests are Empirical Asset Pricing, Liquidity Risk, Institutional Investors, Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds.

//www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ashley-wang.htm

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