All Guts, No Glory: Trading and Diversification among Online Investors
"I explore cross-sectional portfolio performance in a sample containing 324,736 transactions conducted by 16,831 Swedish investors at an Internet discount brokerage firm during the period May 1999 to March 2002. On average, investors hold undiversified portfolios, show a strong preference for risk, and trade aggressively. I measure performance using a panel data model, and explain the cross-sectional variation using investors' turnover, portfolio size and degree of diversification. I find that turnover is harmful to performance due to fees, and is therefore more predominant among investors with small portfolios. I argue that the degree of diversification is a proxy for investor skill, and it has a separate and distinct positive effect on performance. Investors underperform the market by about 8.5% per year on average, of which half can be attributed to trading costs." Copyright 2007 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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2007
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Authors: | Anderson, Anders |
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European Financial Management. - European Financial Management Association - EFMA. - Vol. 13.2007, 3, p. 448-471
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European Financial Management Association - EFMA |
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