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Fund Manager Skill in an Era of Globalization: Offshore Concentration and Fund Performance
Social Science Research Network, 2020We study how mutual fund managers gain an edge in selecting stocks in an era of globalization. We use textual analysis to construct a new measure that captures a mutual fund’s offshore exposure concentration through holding U.S. multinational firms.
John (Jianqiu) Bai +3 more
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Peer Versus Pure Benchmarks in the Compensation of Mutual Fund Managers
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020We examine the role of peer (e.g., Lipper manager indices) versus pure (e.g., S&P 500) benchmarks in fund manager compensation. We model their impact on manager incentives and then test those predictions using novel data. We find that 71% of managers are
Richard B. Evans +3 more
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Luck versus Skill in Evaluating Hedge Fund Managers' Performance
J. of Business and Management, 2020Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine if excess returns produced by hedge fund managers are due to luck or skill. Method - False Discovery Rate (FDR) method addresses the question of how manager skill, as opposed to luck, affects abnormal ...
Rama K. Malladi
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The Challenges of Managing a Student-Managed Fund
The Journal of Trading, 2017This article summarizes the authors’ experiences as faculty advisors to the 360 Huntington Fund at Northeastern University. They strongly encourage other universities to provide their students with similar experiential investment opportunities. The article details the role of students relative to the faculty in the fund, the selection of investment ...
Paul Bolster, Harlan Platt
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What a Difference a (Birth) Month Makes: The Relative Age Effect and Fund Manager Performance
Journal of Financial Economics, 2017Many US states have a single cutoff date for school entry, meaning that some children are older than others when they begin kindergarten. We show that this variation in birth months is associated with differences in adult labor market outcomes in the ...
John (Jianqiu) Bai +3 more
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Student-managed investment funds (SMIFs) in India: the perspectives of student fund managers
Journal of International Education in Business, 2022Purpose This paper aims to explore how the student fund managers perceive the benefits of being part of the fund. Furthermore, this paper examines the country-specific challenges of setting up and managing a student-managed investment fund (SMIF) in India.
Alphil Maria Joseph +2 more
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Accounting Review, 2016
We examine how hometown, school, and workplace ties between financial analysts and mutual fund managers affect their business decisions. We show that a fund manager is more likely to hold stocks covered by analysts with whom she is socially connected ...
Zhaoyang Gu +3 more
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We examine how hometown, school, and workplace ties between financial analysts and mutual fund managers affect their business decisions. We show that a fund manager is more likely to hold stocks covered by analysts with whom she is socially connected ...
Zhaoyang Gu +3 more
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Management Styles of REIT Funds
Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, 2000Executive Summary. This study examines the ability of implied property type allocations to aid in the explanation for the performance of real estate investment trust (REIT) funds.
F. Neil, James Webb
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Are Mutual Fund Managers Good Gamblers?
Journal of financial markets, 2017I investigate the skill of mutual fund managers by focusing in their holdings of a special type of stock. Kumar (2009) classifies low price, high idiosyncratic risk and skewness stocks as ‘Lottery Stocks’, and shows that these securities severely under ...
Roberto Stein
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Management of Research Funding
Higher Education Research & Development, 1987ABSTRACT This paper was delivered to the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ Congress at Penang, August 1986. It commences with a discussion of the purposes of universities, and emphasizes the tension between the internal mission of the university ‐‐ the preservation, transmission and extension of knowledge, implying scholarly autonomy in ...
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