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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Fund Families"”.
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A Look at the Decision Making of Mutual Fund Families
I examine the motivations of mutual fund families when deciding what mutual funds to launch, when to launch them, and how they are going to be launched. I begin by analyzing the influence of investor preferences on the flow to open-end mutual funds by associating flow to a fund with the degree to …
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Familial support in the mutual fund performance competition
Numerous papers have presented evidence of mutual fund families engaging in self-interested behaviour, regardless of or contrary to the interests of its investors. Such findings have provoked industry backlash. Given the significance of the mutual fund industry in managing wealth (approx. US$31 …
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Essays in Asset Management: Mutual Funds and Exchange-traded Funds
… dissertation consists of three essays related to fund management, and in particular, mutual funds (MFs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The first essay studies the decision by an asset manager to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF). Fund families focus on both revenue generation and cost …
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Essays on information and investment
… asks whether investments in research by mutual fund families increase the returns of their actively managed funds. Using detailed expense data from 1996-1999, I find evidence that funds recover a fraction of their management fees and brokerage commissions through higher before-expense returns, …
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An initial analysis of African Mutual Fund Fees and expenses
… of this study is to compile an African Mutual Fund database with a focus on fees charged, expenses borne and fund sizes. Until now, no consolidated database of African Mutual Fund expenses exists. The ancillary goal of the paper is to arrange the dataset in order to perform basic statistical …
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Empirical Studies in Asset Management
… distinctiveness, employee risk-taking and fund performance are affected. I measure connectedness using a dataset of within-firm networks based on 13,357 mutual fund managers across 26 years. Well-connected managers within the fund family face lower performance-turnover and -promotion …
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Three essays in financial economics
… and time series variations in hedge fund fees using a large panel data set. Fund family characteristics and prior performance play an important role in fee determination. New fund families are likely to charge at- or above-median fees. Initial fees of funds introduced by an existing …