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Performance inconsistency in mutual funds : an investigation of window-dressing behavior

Agarwal, Vikas; Gay, Gerald D.; Ling, Leng - 2012 - First Version: March 31, 2011, This version: February 7, 2012

This paper develops two measures of performance inconsistency based on information derived from funds' actual performance and their disclosed portfolio holdings. Using these measures, we show that funds with unskilled managers and poor performance are associated with greater inconsistency....

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Overconfidence among professional investors : evidence from mutual fund managers

Pütz, Alexander (contributor); Ruenzi, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

We examine overconfidence among equity mutual fund managers. While overconfidence has been extensively documented among retail investors, evidence from professional investors is scarce. Consistent with theories of overconfidence, we find that fund managers trade more after good past performance....

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Purchase and redemption decisions of mutual fund investors and the role of fund families

Jank, Stephan; Wedow, Michael - 2010

fund families show higher sales and redemption rates. Further family size also affects the flow-performance relationship …: Investors in large families punish bad performance more. Last, we find that inner family rankings play an important part for … redemptions, with investors strongly redeeming their shares from intra-family losers. -- Mutual Funds ; Fund Family ; Flow …

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Are there disadvantaged clienteles in mutual funds?

Jank, Stephan - 2011

This paper studies the flow-performance relationship of three different investor groups in mutual funds: Households, financial corporations, and insurance companies and pension funds, establishing the following findings: Financial corporations have a strong tendency to chase past performance and...

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Analyst recommendations, mutual fund herding, and overreaction in stock prices

Brown, Nerissa C.; Wei, Kelsey D.; Wermers, Russ - 2007 - This Draft: March 2007

This paper documents the tendency of mutual fund managers to follow analyst recommendation revisions when they trade stocks, and the impact of analyst revisioninduced mutual fund "herds" on stock prices. We find that mutual fund herds follow consensus revisions in analyst recommendations,...

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Overconfidence among professional investors : evidence from mutual fund managers

Pütz, Alexander (contributor); Ruenzi, Stefan (contributor) - 2010 - First Version: August 2007, This Version: November 2010

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Window dressing in mutual funds

Agarwal, Vikas; Gay, Gerald D.; Ling, Leng - 2014

We provide a rationale for window dressing where investors respond to conflicting signals of managerial ability inferred from a fund's performance and disclosed portfolio holdings. We contend that window dressers take a risky bet on their performance during a reporting delay period, which...

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Window dressing in mutual funds

Agarwal, Vikas; Gay, Gerald D.; Ling, Leng - 2013 - First Version: March 31, 2011, This version: July 26, 2013

We provide a rationale for window dressing where investors respond to conflicting signals of managerial ability inferred from a fund's performance and its disclosed portfolio holdings. We contend that window dressers take a risky bet on their performance during a reporting delay period, which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784848

What they did in their previous life : the investment value of mutual fund managers' experience outside the financial sector

Cici, Gjergji; Gehde-Trapp, Monika; Göricke, Marc-André; … - 2014 - This Draft: October 2014

We document that prior work experience of mutual fund managers outside of the asset management industry is valuable from an investment perspective in that it provides managers with a stock picking and industry timing advantage. Fund managers' stock picks from industries where they previously...

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The effect of sentiment on institutional investors : a gender analysis

Gehde-Trapp, Monika; Klingler, Linda - 2022

In this paper, we explore whether male and female fund managers react differently to sentiment. Our main idea is that sentiment indicates mispricings of stocks relative to their fundamental values, and that rational fund managers should profit from these mispricings. As trading against the...

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