Despite at least six empirical studies published since 2000 designed to assess fund managers' REIT selection ability, their skill remains in question. Unlike previous studies, we examine fund holdings and trades of REITs to answer this question. This approach allows us to explicitly account for...

Despite six empirical studies published since 2000 designed to assess fund managers' REIT selection ability, their skill remains in question. Unlike previous studies, we examine fund holdings and trades of REITs to answer this question. This allows us to account for portfolio rebalancing that...

Pension funds investment behavior have found to be persistent over time. Empirical findings of such persistence support conjectures that belief biases such as overoptimism and reputational concerns affect fiduciary investment behavior. Standard mean-variance analyses do not consider the...