Using global mutual fund and ADR data, we test if funds strategically trade cross-listed firms' equity in the most liquid location – the United States or the domestic market. Funds that show such liquidity picking behaviour outperform those that do not. This result is robust to various...

We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand-collected data from individual Census records on the wealth and income of managers' parents, we find that managers from poor families deliver higher alphas than managers from...

We analyze the names of over 39,000 equity mutual funds sold in 77 countries between 1931 and 2016 in order to provide an aggregate perspective on the global evolution of mutual fund offerings. Despite the previously documented high degree of fund proliferation, we find that country-level fund...