This paper examines the optimal use of investment constraints in delegated portfolio management. We show that investment constraints, which limit managers' uses of margin purchase and short-sales, can benefit investors by enhancing managers' incentives to acquire long-term investment information...

This study examines whether the standard compensation contract in the hedge fund industry aligns managers' incentives with investors' interests. I show empirically that managers' compensation increases when fund assets grow, even when diseconomies of scale in fund performance exist. Thus,...

This paper examines the funding liquidity faced by hedge funds and the resulting implication for stocks' excess return co-movement. We find that hedge fund ownership tends to induce a higher stocks' return co-movement with each other, compared to other institutional investors like mutual funds...

This paper provides new evidence about returns to scale in asset management, and their connection with capital flows to funds by investors. Equity mutual funds have diminishing returns to scale at the industry level, while hedge and fixed income funds have increasing returns to scale. The...

I present a dynamic investment model in which mutual funds' inferior performance is an equilibrium response to incentives rather than the consequence of low skills. In the model, a skilled (informed) manager responds to investors' flows, which are a convex function of performance relative to...

As institutional investors have become more aggressive in deploying their capital, fund managers have become more creative with their product offerings. In this paper, we consider a new institutional fund of mutual funds, a portfolio that combines the “best-idea” stocks from two underlying...

We test whether 1) institutional investors with concentrated international holdings outperform internationally diversified investors, and 2) foreign investors with information advantage, measured by cultural and geographic proximity to the target market, outperform other foreign investors. Using...

This paper introduces a general continuous-time mathematical framework for solution of dynamic mean-variance control problems. We obtain theoretical results for two classes of functionals: the first one depends on the whole trajectory of the controlled process and the second one is based on its...