This paper examines the funding liquidity faced by hedge funds and the resulting implication for stocks' excess return co-movement. We find that hedge fund ownership tends to induce a higher stocks' return co-movement with each other, compared to other institutional investors like mutual funds...

This paper examines managerial replacements made by mutual fund families. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of 5,242 managerial replacement events from 1990 to 2011, this study finds fund's performance and flow ranking at the fund family level form the basis of mutual fund families'...

Studying equity mutual funds that are nominated for the prestigious Morningstar Mutual Fund Manager of the Year award, we document that investors react by reducing flows to non-winners. Since winners and nonrecipients are nominated based on strong past performance, this runner-up effect is...