We investigate the building blocks for institutional investors' successful investment strategies. We focus on organizations which formulate investment beliefs and define clear views on how the capital markets work. We present the results of a world wide survey of investment beliefs. We find...

Using a panel data set that provides detailed information on investors' stockholding, this paper studies the relationship between local bias and risk-adjusted portfolio return while controlling for alternative exogenous determinants within Sweden between the years of 2000 and 2007. Existing...

This paper studies hedge fund return predictability in a multivariate setting. Our research design and analysis is motivated by the empirical observations that a specific forecasting model that is going to perform well is not known ex-ante and that modelling time varying return...

Using a large sample of hedge fund manager characteristics, we provide one of the first comprehensive studies on the impact of manager characteristics, such as education and career concern, on hedge fund performances. We document differential ability among hedge fund managers in generating...

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of performance patterns for emerging hedge funds and managers in the hedge fund industry. Emerging managers have particularly strong financial incentives to create investment performance and, because of their size, may be more nimble than...

This paper provides new evidence on the private equity premium puzzle suggested by Moskowitz and Vissing-Joslash;rgensen (2002); Even professional investors like pension funds seem to get a poor risk-return tradeoff from investing directly in private equity. We examine whether high risk...

While Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have experienced very high growth rates over the past 15 years, the growth in mutual funds that invest in REITs has been even more dramatic. REIT mutual fund returns are typically presented relative to the return on a simple value-weighted REIT index....

Using a large sample of hedge fund manager characteristics, we provide one of the first comprehensive studies on the impact of manager characteristics, such as education and career concern, on hedge fund performances. We document differential ability among hedge fund managers in generating...

We analyze the implications of dynamic flows on a mutual fund manager's portfolio decisions. In our model, a myopic investor is allowed to dynamically allocate capital between a riskless asset and an actively managed mutual fund who charges fraction of fund fees. The presence of dynamic flows...

The purpose of this study is to better understand stock market trading volume liquidity, measured at the individual stock level, and its relationship with and potential impact on stock performance for a variety of well-known investment styles. We focus on two universes of generally liquid stocks...