Title
Fund flows and performance in Brazil
Date Issued
01 February 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
This study analyzes how fund flows react to past performance in the dynamic Brazilian equity fund market over the period from 2001 to 2012. The study also tests for a "smart money" effect (Zheng, 1999), or whether funds that receive more money subsequently outperform those that receive less money. We find that investor flows chase past performance, and document some differences in the flow-performance relationship between retail and institutional funds. We do not find evidence of a "smart money" effect for the entire sample of funds. Nonetheless, flows in small and retail funds, which are often seen as populated by less sophisticated investors, do anticipate future fund performance.
Start page
199
End page
207
Volume
68
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Negocios, Administración
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84919494907
Source
Journal of Business Research
ISSN of the container
01482963
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus