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Go active or stay passive : Investment trust, financial innovation and diversification in Belgium's early days
Annaert, Jan; Verdickt, Gertjan - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 79 (2021)
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Diversificating the Undiversified Mutual Fund World
Moreno, David - 2016
well in terms of diversification even for those investors worried about the alpha of funds. The benefits of diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008281
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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 can be observed across sample funds. While some funds are highly specialized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383033
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Pitfalls and perils of financial innovation : the use of CDS by corporate bond funds
Adam, Tim; Güttler, André - 2015
We use the financial crisis of 2007-2009 as a laboratory to examine the costs and benefits of teams versus single managers in asset management. We find that when a fund uses complex trading strategies involving the use of CDS team-managed funds outperform solo-managed funds. This may be due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503931
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Paralyzed by shock and confused by glut : the portfolio formation behavior of peer-to-business lending investors
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Weber, Martina - 2018
We study the investor behavior on a leading peer-to-business lending platform and find evidence of two new investment biases - a default shock bias and a deep market bias. First, we find investors to stop investing in new loans and to cease from diversifying their portfolio after experiencing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863582
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Chapter 22. The Behavior of Individual Investors
Barber, Brad M.; Odean, Terrance - 2013
We provide an overview of research on the stock trading behavior of individual investors. This research documents that individual investors (1) underperform standard benchmarks (e.g. a low-cost index fund), (2) sell winning investments while holding losing investments (the “disposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025356
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Diversification in Funds of Hedge Funds : Is it Possible to Overdiversify?
Brown, Stephen J. - 2011
(FOFs). In this paper we examine a new database that separates out for the first time the effects of diversification (the … variance reducing effects of diversification peter out once FOFs hold more than 20 underlying hedge funds. Yet the majority of … FOFs are more diversified than this. We find a new and surprising result that this excess diversification actually …
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International Diversification with Factor Funds
Eun, Cheol S. - 2015
international diversification. Our approach is motivated by the increasing evidence that size (SMB), book-to-market (HML), and … factor diversification are significant for both in- and out-of-sample periods, and for a realistic range of additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038773
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Exchange-Traded Funds : Sector Performance and Diversification
Luft, Carl F. - 2019
portfolio's diversification across the given sector. We employed regression analysis to analyze diversification across each ETF …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905492
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Diversification Strategies and the Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds
Dai, Na - 2019
Funds of hedge funds are diversified investment vehicles that provide investors with diversification either across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905988