# Benchmark free strategy

`kaal:entity:benchmark-free-strategy`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `benchmark-free-strategy`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2016 to 2016.

**2016**

- [2811729-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2811729-003) [definitional/asserted] -- The authors stipulate that an unconstrained mutual fund strategy is generally not tethered to any benchmark and instead gives the manager operational freedom to pursue risk-adjusted returns using any debt instruments or securities, regardless of issuer, sector, jurisdiction, liquidity, or quality.
  > strategy that generally is not tethered to any benchmark. Instead, the strategy provides the manager with the operational freedom to pursue risk- adjusted returns using any debt instruments or securities, regardless of issuer, sector, jurisdiction, liquidity or quality.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Unconstrained Mutual Funds and Retail Investor Protection (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811729
- [2811729-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2811729-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Three features make it uniquely challenging for retail investors to evaluate the risks of unconstrained mutual funds: the lack of standard benchmarks, the recent emergence of the fund type, and the diversity and complexity of the strategies and risk exposures involved.
  > the lack of standard benchmarks for UMFs, the recent emergence of UMFs as an investment asset type, and the diversity among and complexity of UMFs' strategies and risk exposures make it uniquely challenging for retail investors to evaluate the risks of investing in UMF securities.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Unconstrained Mutual Funds and Retail Investor Protection (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811729
- [2811729-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2811729-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because an unconstrained mutual fund's performance is typically not assessed against any established benchmark, the retail investor must evaluate the fund without the contextual information routinely available for mutual funds pursuing more traditional credit strategies.
  > Therefore, it is left to the retail UMF investor to assess the fund's performance without the type of contextual information routinely available in relation to other mutual funds pursuing more "traditional" credit strategies.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Unconstrained Mutual Funds and Retail Investor Protection (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811729

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