female portfolio manager and funds that have all female portfolio managers. Funds with all female managers perform no … idea that female managers need to perform better for their funds to survive. Yet, female-managed surviving funds have fewer … female and male managers, but that only the best performing female managers manage to survive …

support alpha delivery by mutual and hedge fund managers though this critically depends upon model specification. Quantile …

Greater skill of active investment managers can mean less fee revenue in a general equilibrium. Although more …-skilled managers earn more revenue than less-skilled managers, greater skill for active managers overall can imply less revenue for … their industry. Greater skill allows managers to identify mispriced securities more accurately and thereby make better …

Why do investors entrust active mutual fund managers with large sums of money while receiving negative excess returns … on average? Our explanation is that investors have a coarser information set than fund managers which leads them to … systematically misinterpret managers' skill. When investors are unable to correctly quantify risk because they have no knowledge of …

-skill managers outperform their low-skill peers in the following month in terms of raw returns and alphas. This outperformance is …

managerial replacement. We find that managers with superior performance that is due to sample variation are more likely to be … dismissed than are ‘unlucky' managers indicating that many fund companies are not captivated by the ‘lucky' managers' extreme … performance and willing to give ‘unlucky' managers another chance. Furthermore, underperforming managers are more likely to be …