fund manager duality using a broad sample of single managed US equity funds. We find that duality managers significantly … underperform non-duality managers. This underperformance results from duality funds in the bottom performance quintile. This … suggests that duality managers can avoid being laid off despite their bad performance. Consistent with this lower risk of …

Traditionally, fund managers cast votes on behalf of investors whose capital they manage. Recently, this system has … come under intense debate given the growing concentration of voting power among a few asset managers and disagreements over … environmental and social issues. Major fund managers now offer their investors a choice: delegate their votes to the fund or cast …

Shareholder say-on-pay votes allow institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently …