The use of technical analysis by financial market professionals is not well understood. Thispaper thus analyzes survey evidence from 692 fund managers in five countries, the vast majorityof whom rely on technical analysis. At a forecasting horizon of weeks, technical analysis isthe most...

This paper provides survey evidence on the influence of training on behavioral financeon professional fund managers’ perception and investment behavior. In particular, it examineswhether “trained” fund managers differ from the “untrained” ones in their perceptionof markets and...

This paper provides evidence on the hypothesis that many behavioral finance patterns are sodeeply rooted in human behavior that they are difficult to overcome by learning. We test thison a target group which has undoubtedly very strong incentives to learn efficient behavior,i.e. fund managers....

There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competitionbehavior. However, as expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financialexperts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains of decision making? We analyzesurvey responses of...

Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer schriftlichen Befragung von Fondsmanagern inÖsterreich. Sie offenbart deren positive Selbsteinschätzung hinsichtlich des beruflichenErfolges, ohne dabei mit exzessiver Überschätzung des eigenen Informationsstandesverbunden zu sein. Das Anlageverhalten der...

This paper analyzes the behaviour and motivation of fund managers in foreign exchangemarkets reflected in questionnaire evidence. We find that fund managers andFX dealers differ significantly. Fund managers rely more on fundamentals, basicallydue to their longer forecasting horizons, and reject...

Empirical research has shown that inexperienced fund managers yield significantly higherreturns than their more experienced colleagues. If the portfolios of inexperienced are not morerisky, this result would contradict the hypothesis of market efficiency. Therefore, it is animportant question...