By evaluating the performance of 772 funds, this study seeks to examine whether fund managers add any value by their fund allocation decision. After selecting the securities for investment, fund managers need to decide as to how much to be invested in the selected securities. They can actively...

In this paper we investigate whether herding by actively managed equity funds affects their performances and flows over the 1980-2013 period. We show that during the herding quarter, on average, funds that trade with the herd benefit from this behavior. Although this does not directly translate...