Mutual Fund Systematic Risk for Bull and Bear Markets: An Empirical Examination

The single-index market model is estimated with market returns from mutual funds. Binary variables are used to determine if the beta coefficients increase during bull markets. If the mutual fund beta coefficients increase during bull markets, for example, this increase indicates the portfolio manager has superior market timing ability. Mutual fund managers with superior market timing ability were not discovered.

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