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We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance and flows of U.S. actively-managed equity mutual funds during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We find that most active funds underperform passive benchmarks during the crisis, contradicting a popular hypothesis. Funds with high sustainability...
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We show that a mutual fund's quot;stock selection skillquot; computed using the Daniel, Grinblatt, Titman and Wermers (1997) procedure can be decomposed into additional components that include impatient quot;informed tradingquot; and quot;liquidity provision,quot; thereby helping us understand...
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Investment taxes have a substantial impact on the performance of taxable mutual fund investors. Mutual funds can reduce the tax burdens of their shareholders by avoiding securities that are heavily taxed and by avoiding realizing capital gains that trigger higher tax burdens to the funds'...
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expenses associated with the actively-managed funds that they are mimicking opportunity to invest in assets that managers …
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We use mutual fund flows as a measure for individual investor sentiment for different stocks, and find that high sentiment predicts low future returns at long horizons. Fund flows are dumb money %uF818 by reallocating across different mutual funds, retail investors reduce their wealth in the...
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Despite common wisdom that equities and bonds are segmented, the organization structure of fund families can offset frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within a mutual fund family exhibit a significant...
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Social Security trust fund portfolio diversification to include some equities reduces the equity premium by raising the safe real interest rate. This requires changes in taxes. Under the hypothesis of constant marginal returns to risky investments, trust fund diversification lowers the price of...
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We derive equilibrium asset prices when fund managers deviate from benchmark indices to exploit noise-trader induced … distortions but fund investors constrain these deviations. Because constraints force managers to buy assets that they underweight …. Noise traders bias prices upward because constraints make it harder for managers to underweight overvalued assets, which …
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's measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO's "revealed beliefs … association between overconfidence and citation-weighted patent counts in both cross-sectional and fixed-effect models. This …
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We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM …) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have … important for both the preservation and creation of value. PE managers believe that 40% of their portfolio companies are …
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