We study asset management decisions of three competing student managed funds in Vienna Austria for a 10 year period. This real-world experience allows us to precisely test the tournament effect of fund management, the disposition effect and managerial team size. We find support for risk taking...

This paper characterizes the optimal risk-taking strategies of mutual fund managers competing in multi-period winner-take-all tournaments. With competition among mutual funds, every fund begins by taking maximum risk. In the final period, all funds continue to take maximum risk except possibly...