We document a strong link between institutional investors and long-run stock return and operating performance following seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). Virtually all of the underperformance is confined to the top two quintiles of stocks with the largest increase in number of institutional...

We study managerial turnover for both internally managed mutual funds and those managed externally by subadvisors. We argue that turnover of subadvisors provides sharper tests of any underlying board and sponsor monitoring because these data are heavily weighted toward involuntary turnover. We...