This paper tests the alternative hypotheses of investment selection skills versus overconfidence of equity mutual funds managers in Taiwan. We find that fund holdings’ concentration levels are high and positively related to funds’ risk-adjusted returns in tranquil market periods; however,...

The Chinese stock market has witnessed a dramatic increase of analyst coverage over the past years. While analyst revisions clearly exhibit optimistic biases, we find significant market reactions to both upgrades and downgrades. However, in contrast to findings in existing literature for other...

In a sample of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), this paper documents that stocks with greater liquidity commonality are related to higher aggregate ownership by qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs), mutual funds, and securities dealers. This positive ownership–commonality...

Institutional ownership affects the sensitivity of stock returns to changes in market liquidity (liquidity risk). Overall, institutional ownership lowers the liquidity risk of stocks. However, different types of institutions affect liquidity risk in opposite ways. Stocks held by hedge funds,...

We examine investors’ mutual fund selection ability in China. Using actively managed equity mutual funds between 2005 and 2011, we find that Chinese investors generally have no mutual fund selection ability, a result contrary to the smart money effect in the United States. We show that mutual...

This article reports a study on the performance of mutual equity funds in Brazil from January 2002 to August 2012. For the analyses, Carhart's four-factor model is used as the benchmark for performance, and bootstrap procedures are applied to separate skill from luck. The results show that...

Using a unique data set that contains the complete ownership structure of the German stock market, we study the momentum and contrarian trading of different investor groups. Foreign investors and financial institutions, and especially mutual funds, are momentum traders, whereas private...

Le pouvoir financier des salariés au moyen de leur épargne dans les fonds de pension est ici évalué au vu des règles juridiques qui régissent ces dispositifs.

This paper proposes to analyse the system of american pension plans from an institutional and historical point of view. Since the 1970s, changes in pension regulation have occured simultaneoulsy with changes in capital markets, industrial relations and civil and social rights areas. Analysis is...

les fonds de pension états-uniens ont connu de profondes transformations depuis les années 1970. cette évolution se déroule simultanément à d'autres transformations institutionnelles majeures aux Etats-Unis, remettant en question l'héritage du New Deal.