Dumb money: Mutual fund flows and the cross-section of stock returns
We use mutual fund flows as a measure of individual investor sentiment for different stocks, and find that high sentiment predicts low future returns. Fund flows are dumb money-by reallocating across different mutual funds, retail investors reduce their wealth in the long run. This dumb money effect is related to the value effect: high sentiment stocks tend to be growth stocks. High sentiment also is associated with high corporate issuance, interpretable as companies increasing the supply of shares in response to investor demand.
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2008
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Authors: | Frazzini, Andrea ; Lamont, Owen A. |
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Journal of Financial Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0304-405X. - Vol. 88.2008, 2, p. 299-322
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Elsevier |
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