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In this study we re-visit the performance of 887 active UK equity mutual funds using a new approach proposed by Angelidis, Giamouridis and Tessaromatis (2013). The authors argue that mutual funds stock selection is driven by the benchmark index, so if the benchmark generates alpha, there will be...
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We investigate the relation between tax burdens and mutual fund performance from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The theoretical model introduces heterogeneous tax clienteles in an environment with decreasing returns to scale and shows that the equilibrium performance of mutual...
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This paper analyzes determinants of home bias in equity funds based on monthly holdings data using panel and quantile regressions. We investigate 699 equity funds, domiciled in fifteen European countries, that broadly invested in European stocks from January 2003 to December 2016. More than...
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This paper investigates the purchases and redemptions of a large cross-sectional sample of German equity funds. We find that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large fund families show higher sales and redemption...
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'ah compliance risk since the fund managers do not always fulfill their fiduciary obligations as promised in the prospectus. While …
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Industry performance is a key component of the top-down approach to investment management. The recent boom in the stock prices of mining companies in Australia affords an opportunity to examine whether equity funds are able to capture industry outperformance. Funds with a higher exposure to the...
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This paper analyzes the effect of investor monitoring on the performance of equity investment funds. For that purpose, we analyze the relationship between fund performance, measured using four-factor Alpha, and a set of control variables and monitoring proxy variables. We used monthly data for...
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, fund catering strategy and fund risk preference, the two trading patterns imply fund manager expectation biases, which are …
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This paper investigates the purchases and redemptions of a large cross-sectional sample of German equity funds. We find that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large fund families show higher sales and redemption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003967206
This paper investigates the purchases and redemptions of a large cross-sectional sample of German equity funds. We find that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large fund families show higher sales and redemption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666514