Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate, synthesize and critically evaluate
empirical research findings on the behavioral traits of fund managers from 1994 to 2024 …

This paper studies connections and information flows between activist hedge funds and
other institutional investors and shows them as prominent factors in the success of activist …

Using a novel dataset, I show that hedge fund managers connected through shared
employment histories hold and trade more of the same stocks than unconnected managers …

This article studied the social network of fund managers based on their historical working
relationships, and investigated how these relations influenced their information sharing as …

While connected investors have access to information in their social network (information
diffusion effect), social connections also reduce their incentives to acquire costly information …

Using a unique dataset from China spanning 2005 to 2023, we investigate how superstitious
beliefs influence mutual fund managers' risk-taking behavior and how this influence evolves …

We analyze innovation and experimentation of hedge funds based on their initial risk
profiles. We cluster hedge funds according to self-reported strategy descriptors. Within the …

The performance of the funds has always been important for investors and has affected their
investment preferences. Different factors such as managers' characters or performances has …

Social network analysis is a" hot topic" in the age of social media, and fund managers are
the key participants among institutional investors. Based on the 65,354 quarterly samples of …

Using proprietary data to identify employment-connected hedge fund families, we find highly
coordinated trades within families predict abnormal returns over the next three months …