In this study, we separate institutional investors into the categories of transient, dedicated, and quasi-indexer and examine whether the ownership percentages of these different types of institutional investors are associated with the accuracy of analysts' earnings forecasts. We hypothesize a...

We introduce a new measure of active portfolio management, Active Share, which represents the share of portfolio holdings that differ from the benchmark index holdings. We compute Active Share for domestic equity mutual funds from 1980 to 2003. We relate Active Share to fund characteristics such...

In this study, we examine whether buy-side analysts' forecasts are biased when they cover stocks that are held by the mutual fund. Specifically, we conduct an experiment with buy-side analysts and fund managers where we manipulate whether the forecasts are released to colleagues and clients or...