The preferred risk habitat hypothesis, introduced here, is that individual investors select stocks whose volatilities are commensurate with their risk aversion. The data, 1995-2000 holdings of over 20,000 clients at a large German broker, are consistent with the predictions of the hypothesis:...

Following the literature about Socially Responsible Investment performance, the purpose of this paper is to study the investment style and the performance of French ethical funds from January 1994 to January 2007. The performance measurement aims to verify if an active management based on...

In this paper, we present the results of an online questionnaire among private German mutual fund investors. In an exploratory nature, we empirically analyze the differences between three groups: sustainable investors, conventional investors that are either generally interested or those that are...

This study investigates the impact of dividend taxes on equity mutual fund investments, using the 2018 German Investment Tax Reform as a unique case study. This reform eliminated the foreign tax credit for German fund investors, thereby introducing a new tax planning channel for German equity...