Portfolio selection has been in the focus of financial research for at least thirty years. With a hand-collected data set containing information about the portfolio structure of private and institutional investors our paper gives a brief literature review and sheds light on the home bias effect...

Institutional investments di ffer in several key aspects, including fi nancial sophistication and frequency of monitoring from retail mutual funds. This paper analyzes how this "e ffective governance" impedes tournament behavior. For mutual funds, it has been shown that relative "loser" managers...