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We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We find that active investors earn significantly higher returns and risk-adjusted returns than inactive investors. A performance decomposition analysis reveals that most of...
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We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System in the period 2000 to 2010. We find that active investors outperform passive investors, and that there is a causal effect of fund changes on performance. Chosen funds...
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We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We find that active investors earn significantly higher returns and risk-adjusted returns than inactive investors. A performance decomposition analysis reveals that most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008454
We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We find that active investors earn higher returns and risk-adjusted returns than inactive investors. A performance decomposition analysis reveals that most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410816
This paper reports the results of a behavioural finance experiment on the ability of Thai individuals to make informed investment decisions under a defined contribution self-management option. Using an asset allocation dataset from members of the Thai Government Pension Fund (TGPF) and a control...
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opportunities for momentum (contrarian) traders. We form hypothetical zero investment portfolios of high (low) sentiment betas … stocks, and show that momentum profits decompose to reveal positive (negative) serial correlation of idiosyncratic returns …, that contribute to momentum (contrarian) profits. Furthermore, actual mutual funds identified as momentum (contrarian …
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This paper finds that the disposition effect, well-known in many financial markets, exists in the closed-end fund market, where fundamental values are known, yet the magnitude of the effect varies with the adoption of different reference points. Using the prospect theory explanation to this...
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We document economically large momentum profits when sorting ETFs on returns over the past two to four years. A value …-weighted, long-short strategy based on ETF momentum delivers Carhart (1997) four-factor alphas of up to 1.20% per month. Neither … cross-sectional stock momentum nor co-variation with macroeconomic and liquidity risks can explain ETF momentum. Instead …
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-rise being stronger than killing-fall leads to asymmetry of feedback trading. Our article investigates how mutual funds react to … when asymmetric feedback trading of the relevant stock gets more intense. This negative relationship is robust after … when stocks are allowed short-selling. Further results show that mutual funds' selling towards asymmetric feedback trading …
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