This is the first paper analyzing the impact of index momentum factors on the performance of international and global equity funds. Extending an international, index-based version of the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model by adding the factors of country momentum and sector momentum, we...

This paper evaluates fund managers’ trading skills using a novel dataset of daily mutual fund transactions. We document strong evidence of short term trading performance for both buys and sells lasting up to one month. By establishing a link between a fund’s trades, holdings, and reported...

This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...

This paper is the first to measure individual investors' realized risk-adjusted performance in structured financial products, which represent one of the key financial innovations in recent times. Based on a large database of trades and portfolio holdings for 10,652 retail investors in discount...