Institutional Holding Periods
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We find wide dispersion in trade holding periods for institutional money managers and pension funds. All of the funds execute round-trip trades lasting over a year; 96% of them also execute trades lasting less than one month, although average short-duration trade returns are negative. We find only limited evidence that institutions choose holding periods based on portfolio optimization and no evidence that short-duration trades are driven by the disposition effect. Our results are consistent with the agency problem that arises when clients cannot distinguish when a manager is “actively doing nothing” versus “simply doing nothing” as well as manager overconfidence.
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2013-04-29
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institutional trading; trade holding periods; portfolio optimization; overconfidence
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70907
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