The world's single largest stockowner, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, makes ESG announcements about the products or conduct of its invested firms. The announcements regard divesting from firms or placing them on a watch-list based on the fund's ethical guidelines. We analyze market reactions to...

We use trade-level data to examine the role of actively managed funds (AMFs) in earnings news dissemination. We find AMFs are drawn to, and participate disproportionately more in, earnings announcements (EAs) that include bundled managerial guidance. When the two pieces of news are directionally...