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that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large … fund families show higher sales and redemption rates. Furthermore, family size also affects the flow-performance … relationship. On the one hand, investors in large families punish bad performance more, on the other, they also tend to sell …
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that investors punish bad performance by selling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large … fund families show higher sales and redemption rates. Further family size also affects the flow-performance relationship …: Investors in large families punish bad performance more. Last, we find that inner family rankings play an important part for …
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This paper documents and studies sources of international differences in participation and holdings in stocks, private businesses, and homes among households aged 50+ in the US, England, and eleven continental European countries, using new internationally comparable, household-level data. With...
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This paper examines the puzzlingly high unexploited momentum returns from a new perspective. We analyze characteristics of momentum traders in a sample of 692 fund managers. We find that momentum traders are 'defined' by their short-term horizon, by a behavioural view on the market and by a...
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This paper studies the serial autocorrelation of annual growth rates in employment for selected Austrian service industries over a 30-year period using quantile regression techniques. The autocorrelation of growth rates provides important information on firms growth processes. We find that the...
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obtain strong effects of liquidity on optimal portfolio selection. In particular, portfolio performance, measured by the … for liquidity, the performance of optimal portfolios is relatively more favorable. However, it is also the case that …
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Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund's alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing … or trading frequently can significantly enhance performance ratios. This paper derives the performance …-maximizing strategy - a variant of buy-write - and the least upper bound on such performance enhancement, thereby showing that if common …
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Empirical research has shown that inexperienced fund managers yield significantly higher returns than their more experienced colleagues. If the portfolios of inexperienced are not more risky, this result would contradict the hypothesis of market efficiency. Therefore, it is an important question...
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Recent research has shown that institutional herding is a relevant phenomenon in stock markets. Do institutional investors also follow each other in bond markets? This paper focuses on the German bond market and uses data from 57 German mutual funds that invest mainly in DM-denominated bonds,...
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We present evidence of the impact of buy-side analysts on the behavior and performance of fund managers. Using data … lesser extent. Positive abnormal returns to buy-side analysts' revisions are also reflected in the performance of mutual fund …
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