Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...

We conduct field experiments with retail investors recruited from a social trading platform. In our main experiment, we first elicit beliefs about the returns to active investing. We then generate exogenous variation in beliefs by providing treated respondents with information about index funds...

This book presents a unifying theory of long-term investing for strategic-minded investors that combines modern portfolio theory with value investing. It shows how to build a winning portfolio using dynamic asset allocation, how modern portfolio theory has changed in recent years, and how those...