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Hedge fund performance : a quantitative survey

Yang, Fan; Havránek, Tomáš; Havránková, Zuzana; … - 2022

We provide the first quantitative survey of the empirical literature on hedge fund per- formance. We examine the impact of potential biases on the reported results. Empirical analysis in prior studies has been plagued by fragmentation of underlying data and by lim- ited consensus on how hedge...

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Share Pledging in China : Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?

He, Zhiguo; Liu, Bibo; Zhu, Feifei - 2022

This paper studies the connection between share pledging and entrepreneurial activities in China, challenging the common wisdom that share pledging funds circle back to the listed firms. Share pledging funds are at the discretion of the shareholders who pledge their publicly traded shares, and...

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What Does It Mean to Be in a Team? Evidence from U.S. Mutual Fund Managers

Wang, Diamond - 2016

In recent years, team management has replaced single management to become the dominant management structure in the U.S. mutual fund industry. However, empirical studies on the impacts of team management show mixed results. Using accurate fund manager information from actively-managed equity...

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Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers

Cen, Xiao; Dou, Winston Wei; Kogan, Leonid; Wu, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Investment fund managers make asset allocation decisions on behalf of a significant segment of US households. To elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel dataset, which encompasses detailed information on the...

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Birth order and fund manager's trading behavior : role of sibling rivalry

Agarwal, Vikas; Cochardt, Alexander Elmar; Orlov, Vitaly - 2022

This paper investigates the role of birth order on managerial behavior using rich data on familial background of US mutual fund managers. We find that managers who are born later in the sibling hierarchy take on more investment risks relative to first-born managers, but perform worse. Motivated...

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Bridging the gender funding gap : do female entrepreneurs have equal access to venture capital?

Lins, Elmar; Lutz, Eva - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 27 (2016) 2/3, pp. 347-365

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Entrepreneurial Mutual Fund Managers

Xie, Jing - 2014

I study how mutual funds invest in public U.S. firms where founding family members retain a significant portion of … shares. I posit that informed funds exploit the opaque nature of family firms by holding large positions when they have good … funds offering an institutional class) invest less in family firms than conventional funds. Consistent with the informed …

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A survey on funding MSMEs and female entrepreneurs in MENA countries and the microfinance issue

Adair, Philippe; Berguiga, Imène - 2021

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The performance of private equity funds : does diversification matter?

Lossen, Ulrich - 2006

This paper is the first systematic analysis of the impact of diversification on the performance of private equity funds. A unique data set allows the exact evaluation of diversification across the dimensions financing stages, industries, and countries. Very different levels of diversification...

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Private Equity Fund Size, Investment Size, and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, Mark - 2012

This paper examines why large PE funds earn lower returns. I argue that large PE-funds are suited to making large investments and small PE-funds are suited to nurturing start-ups. Thus, the sub-optimal investment in small companies is one driver of the size effect in private equity. A...

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