data analysis, the thesis documents the growing importance of passive asset managers in listed firms' ownership structures …. It then explains why the incentives of these managers to engage in the corporate governance of their portfolio companies …

of decision making? We analyze survey responses of 649 fund managers in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Thailand, and find … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from … insignificant in fund management. -- fund managers ; gender differences ; risk ; overconfidence ; tournament behavior …