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Till death (or divorce) do us part : early-life family disruption and fund manager behavior

Betzer, André; Limbach, Peter; Rau, P. Raghavendra; … - 2019

We show that early-life family disruption (death or divorce of a parent) causes fund managers to be more risk averse …-treated managers. This effect is most pronounced for managers who experienced family disruption during their formative years or who had …

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Birth order and fund manager's trading behavior : role of sibling rivalry

Agarwal, Vikas; Cochardt, Alexander Elmar; Orlov, Vitaly - 2022

This paper investigates the role of birth order on managerial behavior using rich data on familial background of US mutual fund managers. We find that managers who are born later in the sibling hierarchy take on more investment risks relative to first-born managers, but perform worse. Motivated...

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Standing Out in the Fund Family : Deviation from a Family Portfolio Predicts Mutual Fund Performance

Simutin, Mikhail - 2013

This paper investigates the role of the family organization of the mutual fund industry in shaping managerial portfolio … same fund family significantly outperform managers who passively mimic their family's portfolio. The superior performance … the family portfolio because withholding their investment ideas from family peers enables such managers to achieve top …

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Style analysis of funds of hedge funds: measurement of asset allocation and style drift

Schwindler, Oliver A.; Oehler, Andreas - In: Funds of hedge funds : performance, assessment, …, (pp. 145-169). 2006

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Essays on mutual funds performance

Ivanova, Lubomira - 2005

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Mutual fund flows, expected returns, and the real economy

Jank, Stephan - 2011 - First draft: December 4, 2010, This draft: February 7, 2011

The paper explores whether the co-movement of market returns and equity fund flows can be explained by a common response to macroeconomic news. I find that variables that predict the real economy as well as the equity premium are related to mutual fund flows. Changes in dividend-price ratio...