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The on-going debate over whether fund managers have skills and whether those skills are short-lived is still … literature in two folds. First, managers ranked highest on MPPM in the current quarter earn largest fee-adjusted fund returns in … the following quarter. Those managers hold younger, smaller, lower book-to-market, and momentum stocks. Second, taking …
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This paper examines whether it is possible to forecast one-year-ahead returns of individual companies based on the observed ‘psychopathic' characteristics of their top management team. We find that language characteristic of psychopaths present in annual report narratives, questionable...
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We analyze the market reaction to the sentiment of the CEO speech at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). As the AGM is typically preceded by several information disclosures, the CEO speech may be expected to contribute only marginally to investors' decision-making. Surprisingly, however, we...
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made a comparative survey of different strategies of portfolio selection adopted by portfolio managers in Tunisia, we …
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-standarddeviation increase in ownership predicts a 1.6 percent increase in alpha in the following year. Fund managers who are required to … activity in line with the view that higher ownership aligns interests of managers with those of shareholders and induces higher …
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provides evidence that stock options give managers an incentive to take risk in a research environment that suffers less from …
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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We study the personal Twitter accounts of 226 CEOs, and examine whether the content across 127,916 Tweets hold information about future firm performance. The content of these Tweets mostly deals with CEOs' personal activities and opinions, and the analysis further employs machine learning...
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We document negative stock returns and elevated trading volumes around executives' early option exercise disclosures post-SOX but not pre-SOX. This stock price reaction is incomplete, and the negative stock price drift is smaller post-SOX compared to pre-SOX. We also show effects of media...
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The Securities and Futures Bureau (SFB) of Taiwan prescribes that firms applying for an initial listing after February 2002 must have at least two seats of independent directors (IDs) on the board. Under the SFB 2002 rules, this paper investigates the effect of such governance reforms in ID...
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