The finance and accounting literature document how operating company disclosure tone and textual attributes affect firm performance, earnings persistence, stock volatility, capital costs, and retail investor behavior. In this Article, we explore the applicability of these theories to mutual fund...

How successful are the SEC’s attempts to regulate dynamic risk in financial markets? Using mutual fund disclosure data from two financial shocks—the Puerto Rican debt crisis and COVID-19—we find evidence that SEC open-ended regulations, like the obligation to disclose changing market...

Scholars have roundly criticized disclosure as a regulatory regime over the past decade for good reason. Disclosures—whether describing the terms of a loan or the risks of investing—purport to inform consumers. But who actually reads disclosures? We argue that mutual fund disclosures are...