Following Huang (2013) we hypothesize that Australian mutual funds may increase exposure to liquid assets such as cash and the most liquid assets within their investible universe, in response to a forecast of high market volatility. The switch to liquid assets ensures that the fund can deal with...

I analyze cash flow characteristics of listed infrastructure investment companies and funds and compare this unique infrastructure sample with a non-infrastructure reference group. I confirm that infrastructure investment provide more stable cash flows than non-infrastructure investments....

The preferred risk habitat hypothesis, introduced here, is that individual investors select stocks whose volatilities are commensurate with their risk aversion. The data, 1995-2000 holdings of over 20,000 clients at a large German broker, are consistent with the predictions of the hypothesis:...