Relação entre bolhas de ativos e a forma como os gestores de fundos são pagos

The way fund managers are paid is a “key” contributing factor to the threat of price bubbles that inflate equity and bond markets to unsustainable levels, according to the International Monetary Fund.
In a report the IMF said fund managers generate higher earnings and performance fees from asset growth, which incentivises them to remain invested even when a financial bubble is evident. 

The IMF’s analysis will strengthen the hand of global regulators who are currently examining which fund managers should be considered systemically important financial institutions (Sifis) or those too big to fail.

In its report the IMF also said that the rapid growth in assets managed by institutional investors had contributed to instability in financial markets.

“The rise of the institutional investment management industry has coincided with three of history’s largest [asset price] bubbles in the last 25 years,” wrote Brad Jones, an economist, in the IMF’s working paper.

The paper, entitled Asset Bubbles: Re-thinking Policy for the Age of Asset Management, called for radical reforms to asset managers’ pay contracts, including multiyear clawback provisions such as those now in effect in the banking industry. 

More emphasis should be placed on long-term performance appraisals, said Mr Jones. Fund managers should be incentivised to attack speculative asset price bubbles, he added.

Speaking at a conference in Boston this month, Sir Paul Tucker, the former deputy governor of the Bank of England, told an audience of fund managers that they were “bulls***ting the American people” by playing down the risks to financial market stability caused by employing leverage within products.

Last week, the Bank for International Settlements also weighed into the debate regarding Sifis.

The Basel-based BIS, known as the central bankers’ bank, said that the decisions made by only a few big fund managers could determine how well bond markets function in a future crisis.


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