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cases, trust-related active share delivers superior performance, whereas the economic magnitude is larger for cross …
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to scale, we find evidence of industry-level decreasing returns: The positive turnover-performance relation weakens when …
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Mutual funds are significant blockholders in many corporations. Concerns that funds vote in a pro-management manner to garner lucrative pensions contracts led the SEC to mandate the disclosure of proxy votes. We present a model of mutual fund voting in the presence of potential business ties. We...
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We propose a new method to model hedge fund risk exposures using relatively high frequency conditioning variables. In a large sample of funds, we find substantial evidence that hedge fund risk exposures vary across and within months, and that capturing within-month variation is more important...
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firms tend to enjoy a more favorable treatment from institutional investors, whereas firm performance has virtually no …
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Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund’s alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing … or trading frequently can significantly enhance performance ratios. This paper derives the performance maximizing … strategy - a variant of buy-write - and the least upper bound on such performance enhancement, thereby showing that if common …
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operate as multi-product firms, jointly choosing fees, performance and number of funds and sharing common research facilities …. The family-based organization generates economies of scale in information that induce a trade off between performance and … informativeness (i.e., fees, size and performance of the funds and number of funds per family), to explain stock market liquidity. We …
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performance. Informed investors affect prices indirectly, and in opposite directions: their monitoring activity tends to raise …
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We investigate the impact of the absence of short selling on the pricing of managerial skills in the mutual fund industry. In the presence of divergent opinions regarding managerial skills, fund managers can strategically use fees to attract only the most optimistic capital. The recognition of...
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We investigate whether mutual fund families strategically transfer performance across member funds to favour those more …) overperform at the expense of ‘low value’ funds. Such a performance gap is above the one existing between similar funds not …
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