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We analyze the relation between the location of a pension fund in its network and the investment performance, risk taking, and flows of the fund. Our approach analyzes the centrality of the fund's management company by examining the number of connections it has with other management companies...
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We study daily money market mutual fund flows at the individual share class level during the crisis of September 2008. The empirical approach that we apply to this fine granularity of data brings new insights into the investor and portfolio holding characteristics that are conducive to run-risk...
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We apply a new bootstrap statistical technique to examine the performance of the U.S. openend, domestic-equity mutual fund industry over the 1975 to 2002 period. Specifically, we bootstrap the joint distribution of performance measures (\alphas) across all funds to determine whether managers of...
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This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro-variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that countryspecific mutual funds provide...
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Es gibt mittlerweile eine umfangreiche Literatur dazu, ob einige Fondsmanager tatsächlich Geschick in der Auswahl der von ihnen nachgefragten Wertpapiere besitzen oder ob Glück die Ursache für die überdurchschnittliche Performance einzelner Fonds ist. Dazu wird in der Regel untersucht, ob...
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