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Kumar, Niessen-Ruenzi, and Spalt argue that U.S. investors irrationally discriminate against mutual fund managers with … foreign-sounding names. They report that managers with foreign-sounding names attract less annual investor flows, experience …
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This paper examines the empirical validity of Nicolosi's optimal strategy for a hedge fund manager under a specific payment contract. The contract specifies that the manager's payment consists of a fixed payment and a variable payment, which is a performance-based payment. The model assumes that...
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The behavior of a hedge-fund manager naturally depends on her compensation scheme, her preferences, and constraints on her risk-taking. We propose a numerical method which can be used to analyze the impact of these influences. The model leads to several interesting and novel results concerning...
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This paper finds that fund managers do not expect mean reverting returns, as suggested by theory and empirical evidence …
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We examine whether boards are sufficiently well-informed to make efficient decisions on CEO compensation. In order to mitigate the endogeneity of board decision on CEO compensation, we use mutual fund flow-driven trading pressure as an exogenous shock to stock price informativeness. Consistent...
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This paper examines the relationship between mutual fund managers' past professional backgrounds and their portfolio … performance, using Chinese mutual fund data from 2003 to 2016. We focus on managers with prior work experience either as industry … analysts or as macro analysts, the two most common career paths for Chinese fund managers. We hypothesize that managers who …
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