Ben-David, Itzhak; Li, Jiacui; Rossi, Andrea; Song, Yang - 2021
We present evidence that equity momentum strategies are partially driven by positive-feedback trading intermediated via … relationship between fund flows and past style returns. As a result, trading strategies that load on flow-driven positive-feedback … trading (including momentum in stocks, styles, and factors) experienced a profitability decline. Consistent with the proposed …