This paper formally analyzes the biases related to self-reporting in hedge fund databases by matching the quarterly equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fund companies to the union of five major commercial databases of self-reporting hedge funds between 1980 and 2008. We find...

This paper studies the confidential holdings of institutional investors, especially hedge funds, where the quarter-end equity holdings are disclosed with a delay through amendments to the Form 13F and are usually excluded from the standard databases. Evidence supports private information as the...

Using the recent AAPI Hate around 2020-2021 as an exogenous shock, we show that sociopolitical racial animus impairs the performance of mutual funds managed by at least one Asian female manager, the most targeted group by the Hate-induced violence. The decline in performance is greater in states...