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We study how fast investors learn about manager skills by examining the speed at which their disagreement converges. Using a novel measure of disagreement, we find that hedge fund investors learn as fast as suggested by Bayes' rule. However, we also find mutual fund investors learn much more...
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female portfolio manager and funds that have all female portfolio managers. Funds with all female managers perform no … idea that female managers need to perform better for their funds to survive. Yet, female-managed surviving funds have fewer … female and male managers, but that only the best performing female managers manage to survive …
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support alpha delivery by mutual and hedge fund managers though this critically depends upon model specification. Quantile …
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While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...
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While it is established that idiosyncratic volatility has a negative impact on the cross-section of future stock returns, the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and future hedge fund returns is largely unexplored. We document that hedge funds with high idiosyncratic volatility...
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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managerial replacement. We find that managers with superior performance that is due to sample variation are more likely to be … dismissed than are ‘unlucky' managers indicating that many fund companies are not captivated by the ‘lucky' managers' extreme … performance and willing to give ‘unlucky' managers another chance. Furthermore, underperforming managers are more likely to be …
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