Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Vol. 52 No. 6 2017
Institutional Investor Expectations, Manager Performance, and Fund Flows
open access
Abstract
Using survey data, we analyze institutional investors’ expectations about the future performance of fund managers and the impact of those expectations on asset allocation decisions. We find that institutional investors allocate funds mainly on the basis of fund managers’ past performance and of investment consultants’ recommendations, but not because they extrapolate their expectations from these. This suggests that institutional investors base their investment decisions on the most defensible variables at their disposal and supports the existence of agency considerations in their decision making.
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0022109017000850
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2755-2777
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref