Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are generally index-based funds that allow investors to buy or sell exposures to an index through a single financial instrument. ETF units are created and redeemed in-kind, rather than in-cash (as in the case of a unit trust fund). The in-kind creation and redemption...

Financial investment is at the core of the business of life. Return volatility has ushered in risk management as a specialized function of asset management. Every investor intends to stabilize their returns based on a portfolio constructed aligned to their risk profile; defensive, balanced,...

We examine whether equity issuances (IPOs and SEOs) are in part driven by investor sentiment by using equity mutual fund flows to proxy for the rational and/or irrational components of aggregate demand for equity. We find that more firms issue equity when flows are higher and repurchase equity...

This paper utilizes a new dataset of foreign and domestic mutual funds in Mexico to assess their behavior and obtains three new findings. First, foreign mutual funds are more sensitive to global financial conditions and engage more in herding and positive feedback trading than domestic mutual...

Strategies that overweight low beta stocks and underweight high beta stocks earn positive alphas. Price noise is known to affect high beta stocks, hence, noise trading can be expected to significantly affect the performance of these strategies. I study the impact of flows between bond and equity...