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This paper reassesses two conflicting hypotheses on the valuation impacts of private placements of equity (PPEs), the monitoring/certification hypothesis and the managerial entrenchment hypothesis, by focusing on the shareholder approval, active buyer, and premium pricing features of PPEs. We...
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Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...
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We develop a model of performance evaluation and fund flows for mutual funds in a family. Family performance has two effects on the estimate of a member fund's skill and its inflows: a positive common-skill effect, and a negative correlated-noise effect. The overall spillover is either positive...
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We study capital allocations to managers with two mutual funds, and show that investors learn about managers from their performance records. Flows into a fund are predicted by the manager's performance in his other fund, especially when he outperforms and when signals from the other fund are...
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We examine the ex ante ability of investors to identify superior mutual fund managers among the investor set likely most able, and with the greatest incentive to do so, their rivals. Identifying actual copycat funds via comparisons of trading in consecutive periods, we find little evidence to...
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Using a large sample of institutional investors' investments in private equity funds raised between 1991 and 2011, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects their returns. Bootstrap analyses show that the variance of actual performance is higher than would be expected by chance,...
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According to the often-cited CapCo study (2003) about hedge fund failures, 50% of the failures were driven by Operational Risk. Not only for hedge funds, but also for other asset management companies – such as private equity companies, family offices or independent asset managers - operational...
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We study international outsourcing in the asset management industry. We argue that subcontractor management companies … mitigates the negative performance impact of large outflows of an inhouse fund by up to 30%. However, outsourcing families still … benefit from outsourcing even after subsidization. We endogenize the outsourcing decision and we see that, via outsourcing …
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of self-selection, we endogenize the outsourcing decision and estimate positive gains from outsourcing of 4­14 basis …. The gains from outsourcing provide a novel proxy for the information barriers that segment global financial markets: the … more segmented the underlying markets where the funds invest, the larger the gains from outsourcing …
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