Purpose – This paper aims to examine mutual fund investors' response to mergers of Australian mutual fund companies. Design/methodology/approach – Two matching‐control techniques are employed to analyse the impact of mergers on excess money in and out of open and closed funds involved in...

We examine the effects of fraud committed by mutual fund managers taking into account the dual responsibilities managers have for their employer firm and investors. Performance increases in the immediate aftermath of a scandal being reported, followed by a significant drop suggesting fund...

This paper examines managerial replacements made by mutual fund families. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of 5,242 managerial replacement events from 1990 to 2011, this study finds fund's performance and flow ranking at the fund family level form the basis of mutual fund families'...

We examine whether actively managed equity mutual funds trade on localised information events - syndicated loan covenant violations and changes in bank loan and entity ratings. Local investors achieve positive abnormal stock returns only around covenant violation periods rather than changes in...

This paper examines the funding liquidity faced by hedge funds and the resulting implication for stocks' excess return co-movement. We find that hedge fund ownership tends to induce a higher stocks' return co-movement with each other, compared to other institutional investors like mutual funds...