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This article analyzes the effect of liquidity risk on the performance of various hedge fund portfolio strategies. Similarly to Avramov et al. (2007), we find that, before accounting for the effect of liquidity risk, hedge fund portfolios that incorporate predictability in managerial skills...
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We examine the relationship between portfolio risk and equity returns over different investment horizons of institutional investors. Compared to long-term institutions, portfolios held by short-term institutions exhibit higher factor loadings in market, size, and momentum. In particular, they...
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We use a unique and comprehensive data set on open-end real estate funds in Germany to study a liquidity crisis that …
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We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
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Applying previous theoretical predictions on herding and market signals, we examine mutual fund herding from a … measure fund herding using cosine similarity of liquidity-adjusted trades and classify funds into five groups with … Independents in the middle. Not all herders are the same as funds with different herding tendencies vary significantly in …
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This study investigates the role of financial market uncertainty in institutional herding and its impact on stock … prices. We show that financial market uncertainty is a determinant of institutional herding. Fund managers tend to follow the … trades of other managers more frequently during high uncertainty periods than low uncertainty periods. We find that herding …
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We explore the trading decisions of equity mutual funds during ten periods of extreme market uncertainty. We find that mutual funds reduced their aggregate holdings of illiquid stocks. Exploring the drivers behind this result reveals that this is mainly driven by larger withdrawals from funds...
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