We study the informativeness of trades via discount and full-service retail brokers. We find that trades via full-service retail brokers are statistically and economically more informative than are trades via discount retail brokers. This finding holds in every year over the twelve-year sample...

This study examines the extent to which the abnormal performance of active Australian small-cap equity fund managers, previously documented by Chen et al. (2010), is associated with broker recommendations. Our empirical evidence supports the investment value of broker recommendations, showing...