Limited Attention, Marital Events and Hedge Funds
Abstract We explore the impact of limited attention by analyzing the performance of hedge fund managers who are distracted by marital events. We find that marriages and divorces are associated with significantly lower fund alpha, during the six-month period surrounding and the two-year period after the event. Busy managers who manage multiple funds and who…
DetailsThis Is What It Sounds Like…When Funds Die
A common refrain in investing circles is to comment that there are too many mutual funds and/or ETFs in existence. “Why do investors and allocators need tens of thousands of funds to choose from?” they might say. And they’d be right. But what gets lost in that conversation is that the fund landscape would be…
DetailsAnd The Surprise Is?
Research houses that are paid by fund managers to be rated are more likely to generate positive ratings, according to a new report from Deloitte Access Economics. More here – The Age PS: to be honest this is not new and has been known for several decades.
DetailsHow Much Is Your Super Fund Costing You
In this post, I had a bit of a dig at the self-congratulatory nature of super funds and their lack of performance. In my piece, I mentioned that the long term rate for super funds was quoted at being around 7% for the past 30 years. So I decided to see what the differential between…
DetailsMoney For Nothing
It has been a while since I updated my superannuation fees chart but was prompted yesterday by the following graphic that hit my LinkedIn feed. This was followed by the usual round of self-congratulations and back slapping as to how amazing the superannuation industry was. However, the table is lacking context in that it does…
DetailsDo Dividends Matter To Traders?
This piece from the lads at MF&Co Asset Management dropped into my inbox this morning. What caught my eye was the notion that BHP was a high dividend yield play kind of stock. To be honest I had never thought of it that way and had only ever traded BHP via ETO’s and with the…
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