Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Which Money Is Smart? Mutual Fund Buys and Sells of Individual and Institutional Investors

Which Money Is Smart? Mutual Fund Buys and Sells of Individual and Institutional Investors ABSTRACT Gruber (1996) and Zheng (1999) report that investors channel money toward mutual funds that subsequently perform well. Sapp and Tiwari (2004) find that this “smart money” effect no longer holds after controlling for stock return momentum. While prior work uses quarterly U.S. data, we employ a British data set of monthly fund inflows and outflows differentiated between individual and institutional investors. We document a robust smart money effect in the United Kingdom. The effect is caused by buying (but not selling) decisions of both individuals and institutions. Using monthly data available post‐1991 we show that money is comparably smart in the United States. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Finance Wiley

Which Money Is Smart? Mutual Fund Buys and Sells of Individual and Institutional Investors

The Journal of Finance , Volume 63 (1) – Feb 1, 2008

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/which-money-is-smart-mutual-fund-buys-and-sells-of-individual-and-vMCNkx4Ec6

References (57)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© American Finance Association
ISSN
0022-1082
eISSN
1540-6261
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01311.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

ABSTRACT Gruber (1996) and Zheng (1999) report that investors channel money toward mutual funds that subsequently perform well. Sapp and Tiwari (2004) find that this “smart money” effect no longer holds after controlling for stock return momentum. While prior work uses quarterly U.S. data, we employ a British data set of monthly fund inflows and outflows differentiated between individual and institutional investors. We document a robust smart money effect in the United Kingdom. The effect is caused by buying (but not selling) decisions of both individuals and institutions. Using monthly data available post‐1991 we show that money is comparably smart in the United States.

Journal

The Journal of FinanceWiley

Published: Feb 1, 2008

There are no references for this article.